Sol Kimel

Salo "Sol" Kimel (Hebrew: סול קימל‎; 7 October 1928 – 14 August 2021) was an Israeli chemical physicist. He was a professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and performed research into biomedical applications of lasers.^[1]

Biography[]

Kimel was born on 7 October 1928 in Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany.^[2]^[3] During his childhood in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, he was friends with Anne Frank.^[2] In 1942, his mother 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] Kimel died on 14 August 2021 at the age 92.^[6]

References[]

^ "Sol Kimel". Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on 24 November 2019.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b 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.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "S. Kimel, 1928 -" (in Dutch). University of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020.
^ 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.
^ "Sol Kimel". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 27 April 2020.
^ פרופ' שמואל סול קימל ז"ל (in Hebrew)

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[1] "Sol Kimel". Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on 24 November 2019.

[child-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b 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.

[uva-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b "S. Kimel, 1928 -" (in Dutch). University of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020.

[Lee2012-4] 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.

[6] פרופ' שמואל סול קימל ז"ל (in Hebrew)

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