chemistry

Sol Kimel

Sol Kimel is a chemistry topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Sol Kimel rather than just read about it. In short: Salo "Sol" Kimel (Hebrew: סול קימל; 7 October 1928 – 14 August 2021) was an Israeli chemical physicist. He was a professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology between 1977 and 1997 and performed research into biomedical applications of lasers.

Key takeaways

Sol Kimel belongs to chemistry; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Sol Kimel to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Sol Kimel from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Salo "Sol" Kimel (Hebrew: סול קימל; 7 October 1928 – 14 August 2021) was an Israeli chemical physicist. He was a professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology between 1977 and 1997 and performed research into biomedical applications of lasers.

Biography Kimel was born on 7 October 1928 in Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany. His mother was Eva-Kimel Goldberg. His parents split in 1930 and Kimel together with his mother moved in with her sister and her family in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, while his father remained in Berlin. After being in kindergarten for two years he attended a Montessori school for six years. During his childhood in Amsterdam he was friends with Anne Frank. In November 1942, his mother was taken in a Nazi razzia and sent to 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 where he remained until the liberation of the camp on 12 April 1945. After the war Kimel studied science in Amsterdam and also became active in Habonim. In 1955 Kimel started working at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The next year he returned to the Netherlands and married Bianca Blaugrund-Alefrant. One year later they moved to Israel. In 1960 he obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Amsterdam under professor Jan Ketelaar with a thesis titled: "Optical dispersion of gases in the infrared region : the dispersion through the first overtone band of HCI". The next two years he was a post-doc at Princeton University. Afterwards he became a research scienstist at the Weizmann Institute. Kimel subsequently started working at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and after a spell as associate professor he became full professor in 1977. He retired in 1997. Kimel was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1989. In 1994 he was interviewed by David A. Slavkin of the Anti-Defamation League of Orange County, California on his history as a survivor of the Holocaust, the files were copied to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000. Kimel died in Haifa on 14 August 2021 at the age 92. A memorial endowment was set up in his name at the Beckman Laser Institute.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Sol Kimel

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Sol Kimel claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In chemistry, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Sol Kimel before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Sol Kimel ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Sol Kimel

In research: Sol Kimel appears in chemistry research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Sol Kimel in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Sol Kimel is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1928 births, 2021 deaths, Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Sol Kimel outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Sol Kimel in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Sol Kimel means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Sol Kimel out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

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Why does Sol Kimel matter?

Because it connects several chemistry ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Sol Kimel?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Sol Kimel.