Sol Kimel

Salo "Sol" Kimel (Hebrew: סול קימל) (born 7 October 1928) is an Israeli chemical physicist. He was a professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and performed research into biomedical applications of lasers.[1]

Life

Kimel was born on 7 October 1928 in Berlin, Germany.[2][3] During his childhood in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, he was friends with Anne Frank.[2] In 1942, his mother taken 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 where he remained until the liberation of the camp on 12 April 1945.[4] In 1960 he obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Amsterdam under professor Jan Ketelaar with a thesis titled: "Optical dispersion of gases in the infrared region : the dispersion through the first overtone band of HCI".[3]

Kimel was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1989.[5]

References
  1. "Sol Kimel". Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on 24 November 2019.
  2. Carol Ann Lee (25 May 2012). Anne Frank 1929-1945: het leven van een jong meisje - de definitieve biografie. Bezige Bij b.v., Uitgeverij De. p. 106. ISBN 978-94-6003-523-4.
  3. "S. Kimel, 1928 -" (in Dutch). University of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020.
  4. Carol Ann Lee (25 May 2012). Anne Frank 1929-1945: het leven van een jong meisje - de definitieve biografie. Bezige Bij b.v., Uitgeverij De. p. 352. ISBN 978-94-6003-523-4.
  5. "Sol Kimel". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 27 April 2020.


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