# Sol Kimel

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{{Short description|Israeli chemical physicist (1928–2021)}}
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'''Salo''' '''"Sol"''' '''Kimel''' ({{langx|he|סול קימל}}; 7 October 1928 – 14 August 2021) was an Israeli chemical physicist. He was a professor at [Technion – Israel Institute of Technology](/source/Technion_%E2%80%93_Israel_Institute_of_Technology) between 1977 and 1997 and performed research into biomedical applications of lasers.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://chemistry.technion.ac.il/members/sol-kimel/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191124013139/https://chemistry.technion.ac.il/members/sol-kimel/ |title=Sol Kimel |publisher=Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |date= |archive-date=24 November 2019}}</ref>

==Biography==
Kimel was born on 7 October 1928 in [Berlin](/source/Berlin), [Brandenburg](/source/Province_of_Brandenburg), [Prussia](/source/Free_State_of_Prussia), [Germany](/source/Weimar_Republic).<ref name=child>{{cite book|author=Carol Ann Lee|title=Anne Frank 1929-1945: het leven van een jong meisje - de definitieve biografie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2XB1AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT106|date=25 May 2012|publisher=Bezige Bij b.v., Uitgeverij De|isbn=978-94-6003-523-4|page=106}}</ref><ref name=uva>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.albumacademicum.uva.nl/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?type=simple;lang=nl;c=ap;rgn1=entirerecord;q1=Kimel;x=0;y=0;cc=ap;view=reslist;sort=achternaam;fmt=long;page=reslist;start=1;size=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614093806/http://www.albumacademicum.uva.nl/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?type=simple;lang=nl;c=ap;rgn1=entirerecord;q1=Kimel;x=0;y=0;cc=ap;view=reslist;sort=achternaam;fmt=long;page=reslist;start=1;size=1 |title=S. Kimel, 1928 - |language=Dutch |publisher=University of Amsterdam |date= |archive-date=14 June 2020}}</ref> His mother was Eva-Kimel Goldberg.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.joodsmonument.nl/nl/page/715406/roepnaam-en-offici%C3%ABle-naam-sol-kimel |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124152706/https://www.joodsmonument.nl/nl/page/715406/roepnaam-en-offici%C3%ABle-naam-sol-kimel |title=Roepnaam en officiële naam Sol Kimel |language=Dutch |website=joodsmonument.nl |date=27 June 2023 |archive-date=24 November 2023}}</ref> His parents split in 1930 and Kimel together with his mother moved in with her sister and her family in [Amsterdam](/source/Amsterdam), the Netherlands, while his father remained in Berlin.<ref name=bli>{{cite web|url=https://www.bli.uci.edu/sol-about/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124152239/https://www.bli.uci.edu/sol-about/ |title=About Sol Kimel |publisher=UCI Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic |date= |archive-date=24 November 2023}}</ref><ref name=auto>{{cite web|url=https://www.chemistry.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Sol-Kimel-autobiography-memoir.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205004125/https://www.chemistry.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Sol-Kimel-autobiography-memoir.pdf |title=Sol Kimel - Autobiography |website=chemistry.org |date=February 2008 |archive-date=5 February 2023}}</ref> After being in kindergarten for two years he attended a [Montessori school](/source/Montessori_education) for six years. During his childhood in Amsterdam he was friends with [Anne Frank](/source/Anne_Frank).<ref name=child/> In November 1942, his mother was taken in a [Nazi razzia](/source/Roundup_(history)) and sent to [Sobibor extermination camp](/source/Sobibor_extermination_camp) where she died. Kimel and his family subsequently went into hiding on a farm. In early 1945 the farm was raided by Nazi authorities, the farmer and Kimel's uncle were killed, and Kimel was sent to [Westerbork transit camp](/source/Westerbork_transit_camp) where he remained until the liberation of the camp on 12 April 1945.<ref name=bli/><ref name="Lee2012">{{cite book|author=Carol Ann Lee|title=Anne Frank 1929-1945: het leven van een jong meisje - de definitieve biografie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2XB1AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT352|date=25 May 2012|publisher=Bezige Bij b.v., Uitgeverij De|isbn=978-94-6003-523-4|page=352}}</ref> 

After the war Kimel studied science in Amsterdam and also became active in [Habonim](/source/Habonim_Dror).<ref name=auto/> In 1955 Kimel started working at the [Weizmann Institute of Science](/source/Weizmann_Institute_of_Science). The next year he returned to the Netherlands and married Bianca Blaugrund-Alefrant. One year later they moved to Israel.<ref name=bli/> In 1960 he obtained his PhD in physics from the [University of Amsterdam](/source/University_of_Amsterdam) under professor [Jan Ketelaar](/source/Jan_Ketelaar) with a thesis titled: "Optical dispersion of gases in the infrared region : the dispersion through the first overtone band of HCI".<ref name=uva/> The next two years he was a post-doc at [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University). Afterwards he became a research scienstist at the Weizmann Institute. Kimel subsequently started working at the [Technion – Israel Institute of Technology](/source/Technion_%E2%80%93_Israel_Institute_of_Technology) and after a spell as associate professor he became full professor in 1977. He retired in 1997.<ref name=bli/>

Kimel was elected a corresponding member of the [Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences](/source/Royal_Netherlands_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences) in 1989.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/correspondents/4358 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200427155340/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/correspondents/4358 |title=Sol Kimel |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |archive-date=27 April 2020}}</ref> In 1994 he was interviewed by David A. Slavkin of the [Anti-Defamation League](/source/Anti-Defamation_League) of [Orange County, California](/source/Orange_County%2C_California) on his history as a survivor of [the Holocaust](/source/the_Holocaust), the files were copied to the [United States Holocaust Memorial Museum](/source/United_States_Holocaust_Memorial_Museum) in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn512094 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320011038/https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn512094 |title=Oral history interview with Sol Kimmel |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |date= |archive-date=20 March 2023}}</ref>

Kimel died in [Haifa](/source/Haifa) on 14 August 2021 at the age 92.<ref name=bli/> A memorial endowment was set up in his name at the [Beckman Laser Institute](/source/Beckman_Laser_Institute).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bli.uci.edu/sol/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124160851/https://www.bli.uci.edu/sol/ |title=Sol Kimel Endowed Memorial Graduate Student Award |publisher=Beckman Laser Institute |date= |archive-date=24 November 2023}}</ref>

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