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{{Short description|Israeli chemist}}
{{Infobox scientist
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Chava Lifshitz
| name = Chava Lifshitz
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|03|26}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|03|26}}
| birth_place = [[Vienna]]
| birth_place = [[Vienna]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2005|03|01|1936|03|26}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2005|03|01|1936|03|26}}
| workplaces = Hebrew University of Jerusalem <br> [[Cornell University]] <br> [[Argonne National Laboratory]]
| workplaces = Hebrew University of Jerusalem <br> [[Cornell University]] <br> [[Argonne National Laboratory]]
| alma_mater = [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]
| alma_mater = [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]
| thesis_title = Isotope Effects in the Radiation Chemistry of Aqueous Solutions
| thesis_title = Isotope Effects in the Radiation Chemistry of Aqueous Solutions
| thesis_year = 1961
| thesis_year = 1961
| influences = [[Franklin A. Long]]
}}
}}


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== Early life and education ==
== Early life and education ==
Lifshitz was born Eva Wolf in [[Vienna]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek|url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac/showFullRecord?currentResultId=%22133914925%22&any&currentPosition=1#:~:text=http://d-nb.info/gnd/133914925|access-date=2021-09-23|website=portal.dnb.de}}</ref> She was born to an upper middle class family. Her father, Salomon Wolf worked as a lawyer in Vienna. When Austria was annexed into [[Nazi Germany]], her father emigrated to [[Eretz Yisrael]], and their names became [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Chava Lifshitz, 1936--2005|url=https://theochem.weizmann.ac.il/chava.html|access-date=2021-09-23|website=theochem.weizmann.ac.il}}</ref> She performed well at school and had piano lessons with composer [[Paul Ben-Haim]].{{cn}} Lifschitz was an undergraduate student in chemistry at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]], where she was involved with a program that involved military service.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|date=2006-07-01|title=Curriculum Vitae for Chava Lifshitz|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jp068045v|journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry A|volume=110|issue=27|pages=8238–8238|doi=10.1021/jp068045v|issn=1089-5639}}</ref> She remained at the Hebrew University for doctoral studies, where she studied isotope effects in radiation chemistry.<ref name=":1" /> During her graduate studies she met her future husband, Assa Lifshitz.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Assa Lifshitz|url=https://chemistry.huji.ac.il/Assa|access-date=2021-09-23|website=chemistry.huji.ac.il|language=en}}</ref> Lifshitz was a postdoctoral scholar with [[Franklin A. Long]] at [[Cornell University]], where she started to work with mass spectrometry and unimolecular fragmentations of polyatomic ions.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|date=2006-07-01|title=Biography of Chava Lifshitz|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jp068040y|journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry A|volume=110|issue=27|pages=8235–8237|doi=10.1021/jp068040y|issn=1089-5639}}</ref>
Lifshitz was born Eva Wolf in [[Vienna]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek|url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac/showFullRecord?currentResultId=%22133914925%22&any&currentPosition=1#:~:text=http://d-nb.info/gnd/133914925|access-date=2021-09-23|website=portal.dnb.de}}</ref> She was born to an upper middle class family. Her father, Salomon Wolf worked as a lawyer in Vienna. When Austria was annexed into [[Nazi Germany]], her father emigrated to [[Eretz Yisrael]], and their names became [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Chava Lifshitz, 1936--2005|url=https://theochem.weizmann.ac.il/chava.html|access-date=2021-09-23|website=theochem.weizmann.ac.il}}</ref> She performed well at school and had piano lessons with composer [[Paul Ben-Haim]].{{citation needed|date=September 2021}} Lifschitz was an undergraduate student in chemistry at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]], where she was involved with a program that involved military service.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|date=2006-07-01|title=Curriculum Vitae for Chava Lifshitz|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jp068045v|journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry A|volume=110|issue=27|pages=8238|doi=10.1021/jp068045v|issn=1089-5639}}</ref> She remained at the Hebrew University for doctoral studies, where she studied isotope effects in radiation chemistry.<ref name=":1" /> During her graduate studies she met her future husband, Assa Lifshitz.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Assa Lifshitz|url=https://chemistry.huji.ac.il/Assa|access-date=2021-09-23|website=chemistry.huji.ac.il|language=en}}</ref> Lifshitz was a postdoctoral scholar with [[Franklin A. Long]] at [[Cornell University]], where she started to work with mass spectrometry and unimolecular fragmentations of polyatomic ions.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|date=2006-07-01|title=Biography of Chava Lifshitz|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jp068040y|journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry A|volume=110|issue=27|pages=8235–8237|doi=10.1021/jp068040y|pmid=16821804 |issn=1089-5639|last1=Baer |first1=T. |last2=Laskin |first2=J. }}</ref>


== Research career ==
== Research career ==
In 1963 Lifshitz returned to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she established her own independent research group and was appointed Professor in 1976.<ref name=":1" /> Lifshitz worked as a visiting scientist at [[Argonne National Laboratory]], where she worked on [[VUV (radiation)|VUV]] photoionisation mass spectrometry.<ref name=":2" /> She also worked as a visiting scientist at [[Cornell University]] and [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]].<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2006-07-01|title=Biography of Chava Lifshitz|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jp068040y|journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry A|volume=110|issue=27|pages=8235–8237|doi=10.1021/jp068040y|issn=1089-5639}}</ref> In 1986 Lifshitz was appointed a Brotherton Research Professor at the [[University of Leeds]], where she started working on biomolecules and reaction dynamics. Lifshitz held various senior positions at the Hebrew University, including Chair of the Chemistry Division, head of the [[Mass spectrometry|Mass Spectrometry]] laboratory and member of the Israel Board of higher Education.<ref name=":1" /> She was named the Archie and Markorie Sherman Professor of Chemistry in 1989.<ref name=":1" /> Lifshitz worked on [[mass spectrometry]] and the gas-phase chemistry of ions.
In 1963 Lifshitz returned to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she established her own independent research group and was appointed Professor in 1976.<ref name=":1" /> Lifshitz worked as a visiting scientist at [[Argonne National Laboratory]], where she worked on [[VUV (radiation)|VUV]] photoionisation mass spectrometry.<ref name=":2" /> She also worked as a visiting scientist at [[Cornell University]] and [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]].<ref name=":2"/> In 1986 Lifshitz was appointed a Brotherton Research Professor at the [[University of Leeds]], where she started working on biomolecules and reaction dynamics. Lifshitz held various senior positions at the Hebrew University, including Chair of the Chemistry Division, head of the [[Mass spectrometry|Mass Spectrometry]] laboratory and member of the Israel Board of higher Education.<ref name=":1" /> She was named the Archie and Markorie Sherman Professor of Chemistry in 1989.<ref name=":1" /> Lifshitz worked on [[mass spectrometry]] and the gas-phase chemistry of ions.


== Awards and honors ==
== Awards and honors ==
* 1985 [[Technion – Israel Institute of Technology]] Kolthoff Prize<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chava Lifshitz, 1936--2005|url=https://theochem.weizmann.ac.il/chava.html|access-date=2021-09-23|website=theochem.weizmann.ac.il}}</ref>
* 1985 [[Technion – Israel Institute of Technology]] Kolthoff Prize<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chava Lifshitz, 1936--2005|url=https://theochem.weizmann.ac.il/chava.html|access-date=2021-09-23|website=theochem.weizmann.ac.il}}</ref>
* 1991 [[:de:Max-Planck-Forschungspreis|Max Planck Research Prize]] with [[Helmut Schwarz]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Socialist International Women|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1570-6664_iyb_sim_org_39339|access-date=2021-09-23|website=International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who}}</ref>
* 1991 [[:de:Max-Planck-Forschungspreis|Max Planck Research Prize]] with [[Helmut Schwarz]]<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Socialist International Women|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1570-6664_iyb_sim_org_39339|access-date=2021-09-23|website=International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who|doi=10.1163/1570-6664_iyb_sim_org_39339 }}</ref>
* 1991 President of the Israel Society for Mass Spectrometry<ref name=":1" />
* 1991 President of the Israel Society for Mass Spectrometry<ref name=":1" />
* 2003 Israel Chemical Society Prize for Outstanding Scientist<ref>{{Cite web|title=Outstanding Scientist|url=https://www.chemistry.org.il/outstanding-scientist|access-date=2021-09-23|website=ics-website|language=en}}</ref>
* 2003 Israel Chemical Society Prize for Outstanding Scientist<ref>{{Cite web|title=Outstanding Scientist|url=https://www.chemistry.org.il/outstanding-scientist|access-date=2021-09-23|website=ics-website|language=en}}</ref>
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* {{Cite Q|Q59511081}}
* {{Cite Q|Q59511081}}
* {{Cite Q|Q59511106}}
* {{Cite Q|Q59511106}}
* {{Cite journal|last=Lifshitz|first=C.|last2=Wu|first2=R. L. C.|last3=Tiernan|first3=T. O.|last4=Terwilliger|first4=D. T.|date=1978|title=Negative ion–molecule reactions of ozone and their implications on the thermochemistry of O3−|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.435489|journal=The Journal of Chemical Physics|volume=68|issue=1|pages=247|doi=10.1063/1.435489|issn=0021-9606}} *{{Cite journal|last=LIFSHITZ|first=C.|date=2010-08-19|title=ChemInform Abstract: Tropylium Ion Formation from Toluene: Solution of an Old Problem in Organic Mass Spectrometry|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chin.199438315|journal=ChemInform|volume=25|issue=38|pages=no–no|doi=10.1002/chin.199438315|issn=0931-7597}}
* {{Cite journal|last1=Lifshitz|first1=C.|last2=Wu|first2=R. L. C.|last3=Tiernan|first3=T. O.|last4=Terwilliger|first4=D. T.|date=1978|title=Negative ion–molecule reactions of ozone and their implications on the thermochemistry of O3−|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.435489|journal=The Journal of Chemical Physics|volume=68|issue=1|pages=247|doi=10.1063/1.435489|issn=0021-9606}} *{{Cite journal|last=LIFSHITZ|first=C.|date=2010-08-19|title=ChemInform Abstract: Tropylium Ion Formation from Toluene: Solution of an Old Problem in Organic Mass Spectrometry|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chin.199438315|journal=ChemInform|volume=25|issue=38|pages=no|doi=10.1002/chin.199438315|issn=0931-7597}}


== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
Chava and Assa Lifshitz had three children, Ron, Donna and Orna Lifshitz. She held a long-term cancer diagnosis, which she lived with for over twenty years.<ref name=":0" />
Chava and Assa Lifshitz had three children, Ron, Donna and Orna Lifshitz. She held a long-term cancer diagnosis, which she lived with for over twenty years.<ref name=":0" />


== References ==
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 19:26, 30 October 2023

Chava Lifshitz
Born(1936-03-26)March 26, 1936
Vienna
DiedMarch 1, 2005(2005-03-01) (aged 68)
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
Scientific career
InstitutionsHebrew University of Jerusalem
Cornell University
Argonne National Laboratory
Thesis Isotope Effects in the Radiation Chemistry of Aqueous Solutions  (1961)

Chava Lifshitz (March 26, 1936 – March 1, 2005), née Eva Wolf, was an Austrian-Israeli chemist who was best known for her contributions to mass spectrometry and the gas-phase chemistry of ions. She was awarded the Israel Chemical Society Prize for Outstanding Scientist in 2003.

Early life and education

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Lifshitz was born Eva Wolf in Vienna.[1] She was born to an upper middle class family. Her father, Salomon Wolf worked as a lawyer in Vienna. When Austria was annexed into Nazi Germany, her father emigrated to Eretz Yisrael, and their names became Hebrew.[2] She performed well at school and had piano lessons with composer Paul Ben-Haim.[citation needed] Lifschitz was an undergraduate student in chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she was involved with a program that involved military service.[3] She remained at the Hebrew University for doctoral studies, where she studied isotope effects in radiation chemistry.[3] During her graduate studies she met her future husband, Assa Lifshitz.[4] Lifshitz was a postdoctoral scholar with Franklin A. Long at Cornell University, where she started to work with mass spectrometry and unimolecular fragmentations of polyatomic ions.[3][5]

Research career

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In 1963 Lifshitz returned to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she established her own independent research group and was appointed Professor in 1976.[3] Lifshitz worked as a visiting scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, where she worked on VUV photoionisation mass spectrometry.[5] She also worked as a visiting scientist at Cornell University and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.[5] In 1986 Lifshitz was appointed a Brotherton Research Professor at the University of Leeds, where she started working on biomolecules and reaction dynamics. Lifshitz held various senior positions at the Hebrew University, including Chair of the Chemistry Division, head of the Mass Spectrometry laboratory and member of the Israel Board of higher Education.[3] She was named the Archie and Markorie Sherman Professor of Chemistry in 1989.[3] Lifshitz worked on mass spectrometry and the gas-phase chemistry of ions.

Awards and honors

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Selected publications

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  • Chava Lifshitz (6 March 2006), Principles of Mass Spectrometry Applied to Biomolecules, doi:10.1002/047005042X, Wikidata Q59511081
  • Julia Laskin; Lifshitz C (1 May 2001). "Kinetic energy release distributions in mass spectrometry". Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 36 (5): 459–478. doi:10.1002/JMS.164. ISSN 1076-5174. PMID 11391803. Wikidata Q59511106.
  • Lifshitz, C.; Wu, R. L. C.; Tiernan, T. O.; Terwilliger, D. T. (1978). "Negative ion–molecule reactions of ozone and their implications on the thermochemistry of O3−". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 68 (1): 247. doi:10.1063/1.435489. ISSN 0021-9606. *LIFSHITZ, C. (2010-08-19). "ChemInform Abstract: Tropylium Ion Formation from Toluene: Solution of an Old Problem in Organic Mass Spectrometry". ChemInform. 25 (38): no. doi:10.1002/chin.199438315. ISSN 0931-7597.

Personal life

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Chava and Assa Lifshitz had three children, Ron, Donna and Orna Lifshitz. She held a long-term cancer diagnosis, which she lived with for over twenty years.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
  2. ^ a b "Chava Lifshitz, 1936--2005". theochem.weizmann.ac.il. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Curriculum Vitae for Chava Lifshitz". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 110 (27): 8238. 2006-07-01. doi:10.1021/jp068045v. ISSN 1089-5639.
  4. ^ "Assa Lifshitz". chemistry.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
  5. ^ a b c Baer, T.; Laskin, J. (2006-07-01). "Biography of Chava Lifshitz". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 110 (27): 8235–8237. doi:10.1021/jp068040y. ISSN 1089-5639. PMID 16821804.
  6. ^ "Chava Lifshitz, 1936--2005". theochem.weizmann.ac.il. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
  7. ^ "Socialist International Women". International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who. doi:10.1163/1570-6664_iyb_sim_org_39339. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
  8. ^ "Outstanding Scientist". ics-website. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
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