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Benton Seymour Rabinovitch

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Fields
  
Chemistry

Died
  
2 August 2014

Field
  
Chemistry

Notable awards
  
FRS (1987)

Alma mater
  
McGill University

Institution
  
University of Washington

Born
  
Benton Seymour Rabinovitch 19 February 1919 Montreal (
1919-02-19
)

Institutions
  
University of Washington

Thesis
  
Studies in chemical kinetics (academic research) and the detection of vesicants (war research) (1942)

Books
  
Higgledy Piggledy: A Tale of Four Little Pigs

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(Benton) Seymour Rabinovitch (19 February 1919 - 2 August 2014) was a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle, whose work measured the efficiency with which energy is transferred between molecules in gas-phase ion chemistry.

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Awards and honours

Rabinovitch was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1987.

Personal life

Rabinovitch had four children, and later in life became an expert silversmith, an author of children's books and a philanthropist.

References

Benton Seymour Rabinovitch Wikipedia