14 Facts About Joshua Jortner

Joshua Jortner is a professor emeritus at the School of Chemistry, The Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Joshua Jortner migrated with his parents to Palestine under the British Mandate during the Second World War in 1940.

Joshua Jortner held a professorship at the University of Chicago from 1964 to 1971 as a part-time appointment.

Joshua Jortner was a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen in 1974 and 1978 and at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975.

Joshua Jortner held honorary fellowships, lectureships and chairs at the California Institute of Technology in 1997, St Catherine's College, Oxford, in 1995 and the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris from 1998 to 2000.

Joshua Jortner is an Honorary Foreign Member of 13 Academies of Sciences in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Joshua Jortner has undertaken research on a broad range of areas in both physical and theoretical chemistry, involving dynamical phenomena in chemical systems.

Joshua Jortner's research focuses on the relations between structure, spectroscopy, dynamics and function in microscopic and macroscopic systems.

Joshua Jortner made some central contributions to the elucidation of the mechanisms of energy acquisition, storage and disposal in large molecules, clusters, condensed phase and biophysical systems, as explored from the microscopic point of view.

Joshua Jortner is known for the recognition and elucidation of the intramolecular nature of radiationless dissipation of energy in molecules of large and medium size.

Joshua Jortner's contributions became seminal to the study of laser chemistry, multiphoton processes in molecules, relaxation phenomena in condensed phases and the dynamics of biophysical systems, and had an indelible impact on the modern development of chemical physics and theoretical chemistry.

Joshua Jortner's research covers a vast range of fields, such as the theory of solvated electrons, properties of excited electronic states of molecules, coherent multiphoton processes, charge transfer in polar solvents and in biophysical systems and the dynamics of supercooled large molecules and of molecular clusters.

Joshua Jortner is married to Ruth T Jortner, a cardiologist.

Joshua Jortner's son Roni is a biologist and his daughter Iris is a cellist.