Raphael David Levine (Hebrew:רפאל לוין; born March 29, 1938) is an Israelichemist who is a professor at theHebrew University of Jerusalem,^[1] and the Department ofChemistry andBiochemistry,University of California, Los Angeles^[2] and theCrump Institute for Molecular Imaging of theDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.^[3]

Raphael David Levine
רפאל לוין
Levine in 2002
Born	(1938-03-29)March 29, 1938 (age 87) Alexandria, Egypt
Nationality	Israeli
Known for	Reaction Dynamics
Awards	Wolf Prize in Chemistry Weizmann Prize Annual Prize of the Academy Israel Prize Rothschild Prize Max Planck Prize for International Cooperation EMET Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry,Reaction dynamics
Institutions	Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral advisor	Charles Coulson
Doctoral students	Eran Rabani,Ronnie Kosloff

Raphael David Levine was born on March 29, 1938, inAlexandria,Egypt.

He is the Max Born professor ofNatural Philosophy at theHebrew University of Jerusalem and a distinguished professor at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles. He is known for his contributions in the modern theory of chemically reactive collisions andunimolecular reactions. He has played a major role in the application of the principles of quantum mechanics to the description of physical change in a reaction from a microscopic point of view, introducing many new concepts and terms which became standard to this area. His major works include the quantum theory of absolute rates, the first quantal treatment of molecular photodissociation, elucidation of the role of resonances in reactive molecular collisions, the theory of collision- induced dissociation, and the foundations of dynamical stereochemistry.

He is a member ofIsrael Academy of Sciences and Humanities, theMax Planck Society,Academia Europaea,American Academy of Arts & Sciences,^[4]American Philosophical Society,^[5]Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, andNational Academy of Sciences of the United States.^[6]

He has honorary doctorates from Liege University, 1991 and the Technical University of Munich 1996.

His 2005 book, "Molecular Reaction Dynamics", Cambridge University Press, was selected by Choice as 'Outstanding Academic Title 2006'.

• In 1968, he was awarded the Annual Prize of the Academy.
• In 1974, he was awarded theIsrael Prize, in exact science.^[7]
• In 1979, he was awarded theWeizmann Prize.
• In 1988, he was awarded theWolf Prize in Chemistry along withJoshua Jortner ofTel Aviv University "for their incisive theoretical studies elucidating energy acquisition and disposal in molecular systems and mechanisms for dynamical selectivity and specificity".^[8]
• In 1992, he received the Rothschild Prize.
• In 1996, he was awarded the Max Planck Prize for International Cooperation.
• In 2001, he was awarded the EMET Prize.

• List of Israel Prize recipients