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This book brings together top leaders in the field of chemistry...to discuss some future developments in chemical research. (Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 123, No. 30, 2001) The chemical polymath will enjoy this collection; the specialist will learn a lot. (Perkin Transactions, No.17, 2001) well worth reading (Education in Chemistry, January 2002) ...contains...papers from a symposium celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Wolf prize and the 50th anniversary of the state of Israel... (SciTech Book News, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2002)

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Ehud Keinan is the Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Adjunct Professor at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. He was born and educated in Israel, received his Ph.D. degree under Y. Mazur from the Weizmann Institute of Science and was a postdoctoral fellow under B.M. Trost at the University of Wisconsin. Professor Keinan, who holds the Benno Gitter Ilana Ben-Ami Chair of Biotechnology, was the founder and first Head of the Institute of Catalysis Science and Technology in Israel. His list of awards includes the New England award for academic excellence, the Joseph and Madeleine Nash award, the Shannon award, the CapCure award, and the Herschel-Rich award for scientific excellence. He has published over 130 scientific papers and holds 15 patents in various fields, including biocatalysis with antibodies and enzymes, organic synthesis, organometallic chemistry, drug discovery, and molecular computing devices.

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