Biography:Michael Albeck
Michael Albeck | |
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מיכאל אלבק | |
| Born | October 1934 |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Alma mater | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry, Biochemistry |
| Institutions | Bar Ilan University |
| Doctoral advisor | Saul Patai |
Early life and education
Michael Albeck was born in Berlin, Germany to Hanoch and Henya Albeck in October 1934. His family immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1935 and settled in Jerusalem. He earned both MSc in Chemistry (1959) and PhD (1962) from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Career
He worked as Principal Investigator in the Institute for Fiber and Forest Products in Jerusalem in 1962-1964, as the head of the chemical laboratories of Mekorot Water Company in 1964-1965, and then he joined Bar Ilan University[1] as a faculty member at the Department of Chemistry, becoming a Full Professor in 1978. Albeck served as the Dean of The Faculty of Natural Sciences[2] of Bar Ilan University twice (1967-1969 and 1972-1975), as a member of the Board of Governors and the Board of Trustees of the university[3] (1982-1999) and as the university’s Rector (1982-1986) and President[4] (1986-1989; succeeding Emanuel Rackman, and succeeded by Ernest Krausz).[5] Since 2003, he is a Professor Emeritus at Bar Ilan.
Albeck assumed many scientific duties outside Bar Ilan University, including member of the boards of The Weizmann Scientific Press, Dead Sea Works, The German-Israel Binational Foundation (GIF),[6] Teva Pharmaceuticals, and as the President of The Israel Chemical Society.[7] Albeck is the son of the late Prof. Hanoch Albeck, who was a Professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and one of the foremost scholars of Judaic studies. Michael and his wife Shulamit, a retired Faculty member of the School of Social Work at Bar Ilan University, have four children, including chemistry professor Amnon Albeck, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Scientific interests and publications
Albeck’s main scientific interests are in the chemistry[8] and biological activity<ref>Nature 1987, 330, 173, DOI:10.1038/330173a0; Nat. Immun. Cell Growth Regul. 1990, 9, 182; Cancer Res. 1991, 51, 1499, available at http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/51/5/1499.full.pdf+html; Nat. Immunol. 1993, 12, 50; J. Neurochem. 2003, 85, 90; Virus Res. 2012, 166, 68, DOI:10.1016/j.virusres.2012.03.004;
References
- ↑ Department of Chemistry, Bar Ilan University
- ↑ Faculty of Exact Sciences, BIU
- ↑ Bar Ilan Board of Trustees
- ↑ "Bar-Ilan University - BIU | Israel". https://www.biu.ac.il/en?id=6551&pt=1&pid=988&level=5&cPath=35,983,988.
- ↑ "Bar-Ilan Presidents | Bar Ilan University". .biu.ac.il. https://www1.biu.ac.il/indexE.php?id=6551&pt=1&pid=988&level=5&cPath=35,983,988. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
- ↑ The German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)
- ↑ "ICSThe Israel Chemical Society" (in en-US). https://www.chemistry.org.il/.
- ↑ Synthesis 1989, 8, 635, DOI:10.1055/s-1989-27344; Inorg. Chem. 1998, 37, 1704, DOI:10.1021/ic971456t; ChemMedChem 2007, 2, 1601, DOI:10.1002/cmdc.200700155.
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