Benton Seymour Rabinovitch

Seymour Rabinovitch
Born Benton Seymour Rabinovitch
(1919-02-19)19 February 1919
Montreal[1]
Died 2 August 2014(2014-08-02) (aged 95)
Alma mater McGill University
Awards Peter Debye Award (1984)
FRS (1987)[2]
Scientific career
Fields Chemistry
Institutions University of Washington
Thesis Studies in chemical kinetics (academic research) and the detection of vesicants (war research) (1942)

(Benton) Seymour Rabinovitch (19 February 1919 – 2 August 2014) was a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle, whose work measured the efficiency with which energy is transferred between molecules in gas-phase ion chemistry.[1]

Awards and honours

Rabinovitch was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1987.[2]

Personal life

Rabinovitch had four children, and later in life became an expert silversmith, an author of children's books and a philanthropist.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Seymour Rabinovitch leaves a long UW legacy in chemistry". Seattle: University of Washington. Archived from the original on 2016-02-19.
  2. 1 2 3 Campbell, Charles T.; Rabinovitch, Ruth A. (2016). "Benton Seymour Rabinovitch. 19 February 1919 — 2 August 2014". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society: rsbm20150021. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2015.0021. ISSN 0080-4606.
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