Jacob Klein (chemist)
Jacob Klein (born 1949[1]) is the Herman Mark
Professor of Soft Matter Physics at the Weizmann Jacob Klein
Institute in Rehovot, Israel. He is well known for his Born Tel Aviv, Israel
work in soft condensed matter, polymer science and Alma mater Cambridge University
surface science. Known for material science
Scientific career
Early life and career Fields Chemistry
Physics
Klein was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and completed
Institutions Weizmann Institute
secondary school in England. Following the
completion of military service in Israel in 1970, Klein Cambridge University
returned to England and was an undergraduate and Thesis (1977)
graduate student at Cambridge University; his thesis Doctoral advisor David Tabor
was supervised by David Tabor. He held a research
fellowship and later a fellowship at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge between 1976 and 1984. He held
a postdoctoral fellowship at the Weizmann Institute's department of polymer research between 1977 and
1980, after which he worked jointly as university demonstrator with the Physics Department, Cambridge,
and as a senior scientist at the Weizmann Institute. Klein was appointed an associate professor at the
Weizmann Institute in 1984 and became a full professor in 1987, heading the institute's polymer research
department from 1989 to 1991.
In October 2000 Klein left the Institute for a period, and was appointed as head of the Physical and
Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at Oxford. In 2007 he returned to the Weizmann Institute. He is a
fellow of Exeter College. Klein has authored or co-authored more than 290 peer-reviewed publications,
and served on the editorial boards of a number of scientific journals.
During his career, Klein has held visiting faculty positions at University of California-Santa Barbara,
Princeton University, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, École Superieure de Physique et
Chimie Industrielle, Cornell University, Tsinghua University, and Beihang University.
Honors and awards
He was a Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford (2000-2007). Klein is a fellow of
the Royal Society of Chemistry (2001) and is also a fellow of the American Physical Society (2003)[2]
and the Institute of Physics (2004).
Klein received the Polymer Physics Prize from the American Physical Society (1995),[3] and the Royal
Society's Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award (2011).[4] He was awarded the Tribology Gold
Medal from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in 2012.[5] Other notable awards include
the Liquid Matter Prize of the European Physical Society (2017), the Rothschild Prize (2020), and the
Irving Langmuir Award of the American Physical Society (2021).
References
1. "Prof. Jacob Klein" (http://www.weizmann.ac.il/fluids/klein/jklein.html).
2. "APS Fellow Archive" (https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initi
al=&year=2003&unit_id=&institution=). APS. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
3. "Polymer Physics Prize" (http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/polymer.cfm).
www.aps.org. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
4. "Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award" (https://www.rsc.org/prizes-funding/prizes/ar
chives/soft-matter-and-biophysical-chemistry-award/). Royal Society of Chemistry.
Retrieved 2023-08-07.
5. "IMechE Tribology Gold Medal Laureates | Institution of Mechanical Engineers" (https://ww
w.imeche.org/careers-education/scholarships-and-awards/DGs/tribology/tribology-gold-med
al/gold-medal-laureates). www.imeche.org. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
External links
Research homepage (https://web.archive.org/web/20050831220540/http://www.chem.ox.ac.
uk/researchguide/jklein.html)
Weizmann Research Group homepage (http://www.weizmann.ac.il/fluids/klein/klein1.html)
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