In addition to research at the Weizmann Institute, Prof. Dostrovsky also served in positions in the field of nuclear energy, in the Israel Committee and as Israel's representative in the International Atomic Energy Agency, and also worked in the field of water desalination
Prof. Israel Dostrovsky, one of the founders of the Weizmann Institute of Science and the institute's fifth president, died at the age of 92.
Israel Dostrovsky was born in Odessa in the former Soviet Union in 1918 and immigrated to the Land of Israel in 1919. He attended elementary and high school in Jerusalem and then went to study in England and received a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1940 and a doctorate in physical chemistry in 1943, both from University College London. Upon graduation, he worked as a chemistry lecturer at the university college and in 1948 joined the founders of the Weizmann Institute of Science, shortly before the inauguration of the institute. Immediately upon joining the institute's staff, he was appointed head of the isotope research department and held this position for 17 years.
Between 1971 and 1975 he served as vice president and president of the institute, and in 1975 he was appointed to the position of "Professor of the institute" - a prestigious rank given to great scientists who achieved extraordinary achievements in science and worked for the State of Israel and the Weizmann Institute of Science. Between 1980 and 1990 he served as the head of the energy research center at the institute. When he turned 80, the Israeli National Academy of Sciences held a special scientific conference in Jerusalem and in the streets in honor of his birthday.
Simultaneously with his work at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Prof. Dostrovsky also served as head of the research department of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, 1953-1957; Head of the National Research and Development Council, 1959-1961; Director General of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, 1965-1971; and head of the committee for water desalination in Israel, 1966-1981. Between 1973 and 1981 he served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations in Vienna, and between 1991 and 1993 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the SolarPACES solar project of the International Energy Agency.
Prof. Dostrovsky was a member of several professional organizations: the Israeli Chemical Society, the Israeli Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry of Great Britain. He was a member of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He won the Ramsey RAMSEY Prize and Medal, 1943; Weizmann Prize, 1952; Honorary Doctorate degrees from Tel Aviv University, 1973, and the Technion, 1994; and the Israel Prize, 1995.
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The man did not believe that the world was changing. Nevertheless, he will say to his memory entre nous, although on the web today "that we need to deuterate" according to the 21st century and at the time when the message was delivered to me through Prof. Emeritus Joost Mansen, as it was delivered and even though I understood the good intentions of Israel Dostrovsky As far as he said what he said, I was forced by the circumstances not to respond at the time. Today it is absolutely clear that deuterations can be made and should be made and I am required to do so. Unfortunately at the time it was not possible and also in silence it was possible to understand that I was blowing a complete negation and this is something that can only be done after the fact But "only casually" has become a way of life here and not just a saying of Mandhua. So I repeat the proposal I made to the Weizmann Institute, while he was still alive: half a floor for Amnon Yogev and half a floor for me." Then in my opinion not only was Israel Dostrovsky alive, But it should have started with deuterations for the meaning of the term today: photochemistry at the Weizmann Institute and under it the deuterations
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