Professor Emeritus


		Phone: 972-3-6408322,6406474 Fax: 972-3-6415054 email: jortner@chemsg1.tau.ac.il Location: Ornstein Building, Room 221


		Born 14 March 1933, Tarnow, Poland. Immigration to Israel 1940. Married to Ruth Thea Sanger, M.D. One son Roni, one daughter Iris. Military Service, Israeli Defence Forces 1955-1959. Education Faculty of Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry 1951-1956. Ph.D. degree, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1960. Academic Appointments 1961-63 Lecturer, Department of Physical Chemistry, Hebrew University 1963-65 Senior Lecturer, Department of Physical Chemistry, Hebrew University 1965-66 Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry, Tel Aviv University 1966- Professor of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University 1966-72 Head, Institute of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University 1966-69 Deputy Rector, Tel Aviv University 1969 Acting Rector, Tel Aviv University 1970-72 Vice-President, Tel Aviv University 1974-2003 Heinemann Chair of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University 2003- Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University Visiting Academic Appointments 1962-64 Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Metals, University of Chicago, U.S.A. 1965-66 Visiting Associate Professor, Chemistry Department and Institute For the Study of Metals, University of Chicago, U.S.A. 1966-72 Professor, Chemistry Department and the James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, U.S.A. (part-time appointment) 1974, 1978 Visiting Professor, H.C. Ørsted Institute, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 1975 Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. 1995 Christensen Visiting Fellow, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, England 1998-2000 International Research Chair "Blaise Pascal" of the Fondation de l'École Normale Supérieure, France Honorary Degrees 1985 Doctor Honoris Causa of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 1986 Doctor Honoris Causa of the Pierre and Marie Curie University of Paris, France 1996 Doctor Honoris Causa of the Technical University of Munich, Germany 2005 Doctor Scientiarium Honoris Causa, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 2005 Doctor Honoris Causa of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 2005 Doctor Rerum Naturalium Honoris Causa of the Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2005 Doctor Rerum Naturalium Honoris Causa of the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Awards And Honors 1972 International Academy of Quantum Science Award 1973 Weizmann Prize 1976 Rothschild Prize 1976 Kolthof Prize 1982 Israel Prize in Exact Sciences 1988 The Wolf Prize in Chemistry 1989 Commemorative Issue of the Israel Journal of Chemistry in honor of The Wolf Prize 1993 The Honorary J. Heyrovsky Medal 1994 Festschrift of the Journal of Physical Chemistry 1995 August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal of the German Chemical Society 1996 The Establishment of the Joshua Jortner Distinguished Lectures in Chemistry at Tel Aviv University endowed by the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation 1997 Dedication of the XVII Symposium on Molecular Beams, University Of Paris, Orsay, France 1999 The Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry 2002 Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India 2003 Maria Sklodowska-Curie Medal of the Polish Chemical Society 2003-4 Publication of a Special Issue of the Israel Journal of Chemistry on "Perspectives in Chemistry". honoring the occasion of Jortner's 70th birthday 2004 Medal of the Israeli Chemical Society 2007 The Joshua Jortner Chair in Chemistry at Tel Aviv University endowed by the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation 2007 The Lise-Meitner Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2008 EMET Prize in Exact Sciences: Chemistry Membership In Academies of Sciences 1973- Member of the Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities 1982- Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science 1990- Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society 1990- Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 1991- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1991- Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences 1991- Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences 1992- Member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea 1994- Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences 1995- Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina 1995- Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy 1997- Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1998- Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 1999- Foreign Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic Honorary Lectureships And Fellowships 1974 Bourke Lecturer, Faraday Division, Chemical Society (London) 1975 Reilly Lecturer, University of Notre Dame (U.S.A.) 1977 Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, California Institute of Technology (U.S.A.) 1977 Falk Plaut Lecturer, Columbia University (New York, U.S.A.) 1979 Camille & Henry Dreyfus Distinguished Scholar, Pennsylvania University, (U.S.A.) 1982 FMC Lecturer, Princeton University (U.S.A.) 1983 F. Stanley Kipping Visiting Professorship, University of Nottingham (England) 1984 Albert W. Noyes, Jr., Lecturer, Rochester University (U.S.A.) 1988 The Fritz Haber Lecturer (Germany) 1989 Presentation to the Academie des Sciences, Paris, France 1993 The Memorial R. Brdicka Lecture (Prague, the Czech Republic) 1994 The DuPont Distinguished Lecture in Physical Chemistry, Indiana University (Bloomington, U.S.A.) 1994 Flygare Memorial Lecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U.S.A.) 1994 F. Kaufman Memorial Lectures, University of Pittsburgh (U.S.A.) 1995 Hinshelwood Lecturer, Oxford University, Oxford, England 1995 The Aharon Katzir Memorial Lecture, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) 1995 The Jeremy Musher Memorial Lecture, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel) 1997 The Spiers Memorial Lectureship, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Faraday Division (England) 1999 The C.N.R. Rao Distinguished Award Lecture, Bangalore, India 1999 The Robert S. Mulliken Lecture, University of Chicago, USA 1999 Kolthoff Lecturer, University of Minnesota, USA 1999 The K.S. Pitzer Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, USA 1999 The J.O. Hirschfelder Lectures, University of Wisconsin, USA 1998-2000 International Research Chair "Blaise Pascal", Fondation de l'École Normale Supérieure, Ille de France, France 2002 The Jean Perrin Lecture, Division of Chemical Physics, French Chemical and Physical Societies, France 2003 The Distinguished Malcolm Dole Lectures in Physical Chemistry, Northwestren University, Evanston USA Membership In Professional Societies 1962- Member of the American Physical Society 1964- Member of the Israel Chemical Society 1985- Fellow of the American Physical Society 1997- Member of the American Chemical Society 2002- Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) 2002- Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) 2002- Honorary Board of Directors of the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics 2008- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry Membership In Editorial Boards 1966-69 Journal of Chemical Physics 1969-98 Chemical Physics Letters 1970-78 Molecular Physics 1972-81, 1985- Theoretical Chimica Acta 1980-84 Journal of Physical Chemistry 1982- Laser Chemistry 1983- Chemical Physics 1987-97 Zeitschrift für Physik D - Atoms, Molecules and Clusters 1988-94 International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 1995- Russian Journal of Chemistry 1997-2005 European Physical Journal D 1997-2001 European Journal of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics 2004- International Journal of Applied Chemistry 2005- Honorary Member of the Board of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2007- International Review of Physics (IREPHY) Offices At The Israel National Academy Sciences And Humanities 1980-86 Vice-President 1986-95 President 1996-2004 Member of the Council 1986-95 Science Advisor to Prime Ministers of Israel Yitzhak Shamir, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres 1996-2002 Co-Chairman of the FIRST Committee of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2004-05 Chairman of the Center for the Advancement of Science Policy of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Israel Science Polity 1969-74 Member of the Israel National Council for Higher Education 1970-72 Member of the Israeli National Council for Research and Development 1975-81 Member of the Israeli University Planning and Grants Committee 1986-95 First Chairman of the Board of the Israel National Science Foundation 1988-2005 Member of the Israel Committee for Pugwash 1992-97 Member of the Board of Governors of the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation 1992-93 Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation 1996-2003 Member of the Board of the Israel National Science Foundation International Scientific Activities 1979-85 Member of the Committee on Synchrotron Radiation, European Science Foundation 1983-89 Member of the Minerva Foundation Fellowship Committee 1985-2004 Member of the Beirat of the Binational German-Israeli Fritz Haber Program on Chemical Dynamics 1987- Founding Member of the Beirat of the Binational German-Israeli James Franck Program on Laser-Matter Interactions 1987-2001 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry: Member of the Bureau (1987-95) and Executive Committee (1998-99), Vice President and President Elect (1996-97), President (1998-99), and Past President (2000-01) 1991- President, American Foundation for Basic Research in Israel 1998-2000 Board of Directors, Telluride Summer Research Center 2000-06 Coordinator of the Sackler Chemistry Prize for Young Scientists, Tel Aviv University 2002- Member of the Board of the Dan David Prize 2004- Member of the Board of the Cyprus Research and Education Foundation 2005- Research Board of Advisors, American Biographical Institute (ABI)

		Exploration of the phenomena of energy acquisition, storage and disposal in isolated molecules, clusters, condensed phases and biophysical systems Radiationless transitions in isolated large molecules Relaxation processes in condensed phases Electron transfer and transport Primary charge separation in photosynthesis Electronic states and transport in molecular crystals, biopolymers, and disordered materials Dynamic processes in biophysics Cluster energetics, spectroscopy and dynamics. Microscopic solvation. Energetic and dynamic cluster size effects Dynamics and response of nanostructures Ultrafast dynamics Ultraintense laser-matter interaction Nuclear fusion driven by Coulomb explosion Ultracold finite systems
		Biography Curriculum Vitae Description of Research Contributions Brief Bibliography Topical List of Publications A. Solution Spectroscopy, Photochemistry and Radical Reactions B. Excess Electrons in Fluids C. Rare-Gas Halides D. Excitons, Charge and Energy Transport in Molecular Solids E. Electronic Excitations in Condensed Rare Gases F. Electronic Structure and Transport in Disordered Materials G. Radiationless Transitions H. Intramolecular Dynamics I. Multiphoton Processes J. Extravalence Excitations K. Molecular Clusters. Microscopic Solvation, Energetic and Dynamic Size Effects. Dynamics and Response of Nanostructures L. Relaxation in the Condensed Phase and Biophysical Systems M. Electron Transfer in Chemistry and Biophysics N. Ultrafast Dynamics O. Ultraintense Laser-Matter Interaction P. Ultracold Finite Systems Publications Publications 1-200 Publications 201-400 Publications 401-600 Publications 601- Scientific-Biographical Articles Books