Raphael Levine, UCLA distinguished professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, will be awarded the 2012 Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Gold Medal for his fundamental contributions to understanding chemical reactivity on the molecular-scale, with special reference to the role of energy, and for discovering that "the methods of thermodynamics can be applied to non-equilibrium few-atom systems."
Levine’s research expertise includes chemistry under extreme conditions and reaction dynamics and mechanism in large systems, including clusters and in solution. He received his master’s degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1959, his Ph.D. at Nottingham University in 1964 and the D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1966.
The award presentation will occur at the opening ceremony of the 78th annual meeting of the ICS in Tel Aviv on Feb. 12. The ISC Gold Medal is the organization's highest honor and has been awarded annually since 2002. The ICS was founded in 1933 and aims to advance pure and applied chemistry.
