Salo "Sol" Kimel ( he, סול קימל; 7 October 1928 – 14 August 2021) was an Israeli chemical physicist. He was a professor at
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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and performed research into biomedical applications of lasers.
Biography
Kimel was born on 7 October 1928 in
Berlin
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,
Brandenburg
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,
Prussia
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,
Germany
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.
During his childhood in
Amsterdam
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, the Netherlands, he was friends with
Anne Frank
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[ In 1942, his mother was taken in a Nazi razzia. Kimel subsequently went into hiding on a farm. In early 1945 the farm was raided by Nazi authorities and Kimel was sent to ]Westerbork transit camp
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where he remained until the liberation of the camp on 12 April 1945.University of Amsterdam
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under professor Jan Ketelaar
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with a thesis titled: "Optical dispersion of gases in the infrared region : the dispersion through the first overtone band of HCI".[
Kimel was elected a corresponding member of the ]Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 1989. Kimel died on 14 August 2021 at the age 92.פרופ' שמואל סול קימל ז"ל
References
1928 births
2021 deaths
Israeli chemists
Laser researchers
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Scientists from Berlin
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
University of Amsterdam alumni
German emigrants to Israel
Immigrants to the Netherlands
Immigrants to Israel
Israeli people of German-Jewish descent
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