Organosilicon Chemistry, Organic chemistry and computational chemistry. Experiment and Theory.
Organosilicon Chemistry: Multiple bonds to silicon; silyl anions, silyl cations, silyl radicals, silylenes; metallosilanes; polysilanes. Organic Reaction Mechanisms: Reactive intermediates, in particular carbenium ions; strained molecules. Computational Chemistry: Applications in organic and organometallic chemistry, in particular of ab initio quantum mechanical methods; molecular modeling.
The Lise Meitner Center for Computational Chemistry – Profile & History
Post doc: Princeton University, 1974-1976
Ph.D: Hebrew University, 1974
“In Celebration of the 65th Birthday of Professor Yitzhak Apeloig”
Curriculum Vitae
Autobiography
Angewandte Chemie Author’s Profile
Awards
1965-1967
Annual Prize for Distinction in Chemistry Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
1971
The Prize for Distinguished Student of the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
1974
The Yashinski Prize for Distinguished Ph.D. Thesis
1977-1978
Bat-Sheba de Rothschild Fellow
1979
DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Fellowship
1985, 1991
DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Visiting Professor
1986
The Louis Klein Visiting Professorship in Australian Universities
1986, 1993, 1997
Distinguished Teacher Award by the Technion Student Association
1988
Technion Award for Academic Excellence, Technion (The New England-Taub Prize)
1991, 1993
The Henri Gutwirth Prize for Excellence in Research,Technion
1993
Included in “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering”, Beginning Second Edition
1993
Included in the “International Who’s Who of Contemporary Achievement”, Beginning Third Edition
1993
Incumbent of a Chair in Chemistry
1993
Israel-Italy National Council for Research and Development, Senior Scientist Exchange Fellow
1994-1999, 2010, 2017-2018
Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award
1996
Granted a Minerva Center in Computational Quantum Chemistry
1991, 1999, 2010
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Senior Visiting Professor Award
2002
C. A Coulson Lecturer, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
2002
The Israel Chemical Society Prize
2006
Honorary Doctorate of Science (Dr. Honoris Causa) Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
2007
Wacker Silicone Award
2008
Honorary Member, Academia de Ciencias, Mexico
2009
A Special Issue of Chemistry – A European Journal in honor of Yitzhak Apeloig
2009
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
2010
American Chemical Society Frederic Stanely Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry
2010
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Honorary Member
2011
Order of Merit (First Degree) of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany
2014 – present
Member of the International Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2016
Academia Europea- The Academy of Europe, Member
2017
Israel Chemical Society Medal (the highest honor of the ICS)
2018
Honorary Citizenship of Haifa (Yakir Haifa)
2021
Schrödinger Medal of the World Association of Computational and Theoretical Chemists
2021
European Academy of Sciences, Member
