Raphael David Levine
Raphael David Levine (Hebrew: רפאל לוין, born March 29, 1938) is an Israeli chemist who is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,[1] and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles[2] and the Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.He is known for his contributions in the modern theory of chemically reactive collisions and unimolecular reactions.He has played a major role in the application of the principles of quantum mechanics to the description of physical change in a reaction from a microscopic point of view, introducing many new concepts and terms which became standard to this area.His major works include the quantum theory of absolute rates, the first quantal treatment of molecular photodissociation, elucidation of the role of resonances in reactive molecular collisions, the theory of collision- induced dissociation, and the foundations of dynamical stereochemistry.His 2005 book, "Molecular Reaction Dynamics", Cambridge University Press, was selected by Choice as 'Outstanding Academic Title 2006'.