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R. Platzmann and J. Franck, L. Farkas Memorial Volume, Research Council of Israel, Jerusalem, 1952, p. 21 Z. Physik 138(1954)411. 

Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel. See Israel Journal of Chemistry. 

Israel Journal of Chemistry [Isr. J. Chem.] (1963-). Successor to Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel [Bull. Res. Counc. Isr.] (1951-1955) and its subsequent Section A [Bull. Res. Counc. Isr., Sect. A] (1955-1963) (1955-1957, maths, physics, and chemistry 1957-1963, chemistry). Publisher Laser Pages Publishing Ltd., Jerusalem. 

Bulletin of Research Council of Israel, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1951 (in English), includes various fields of science. 

Patchornik, A., and M. Sokolovsky Oxidative Cleavage of Dehydroalanine (a-Amino-Acrylic Acid) Peptides. Bull. Research Council of Israel, Proc. 30th Meeting of the Israel Chem. Soc. 11 A, 80 (1962). 

The development of such membranes in England and the United States was not an easy task, as finely outlined by Solt (1995). In those days, the combined efforts of the Netherlands National Research Organisation (TNO) and the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research resulted in the development of the ED process for demineralizing saline waters from mines. In the late 1950s, the Office of European Economic Cooperation, as well as in the 1960s the Institute for Arid Zone Research at Beersheva (Israel) and several Japanese manufacturers, contributed to further R D in this sector (Lacey and Loeb, 1972 Solt, 1995). 

On leave from The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, Israel. Present address Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California 94025. This work has been carried out at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, where the author, on leave from the Weizmann Institute of Science, was a senior research associate of the National Research Council, the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 

We would like to thank Dr. Felicitas Pfeifer for critical reading of the part of this review that deals with genetics. We would like also to acknowledge the Office of Naval Research (United States), the Centre de la Recherche Scientifique (France), the National Council for Research and Development (Israel), and the Endowment Fund for Basic Research in Life Sciences—Charles H. Revson Foundation for their support. Parts of this article were written while M. M. was on a sabbatical leave at The Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, and H. E. was a Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. 

Laboratories - (a) Atomic Energy Canada Ltd., Chalk River, Ontario, courtesy R.M. Brown (b) Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont., courtesy P. Fritz (c) Saskatchewan Research Council, Saskatoon (d) University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., and remaining analyses performed at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. 

For their studies on the structure and mode of action of ribosomes, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Medical Research Council, UK), Thomas Steitz (Yale University, U.S.) and Ada Yonath (Weizmann Institute, Israel) were awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 

We thank aU our coworkers, whose names appear in the cited references, for their valuable contributions. Our research described in this chapter was supported by the Israel Science Foundation, by the DIP program for German-Israeli Cooperation, by the European Research Council under the FP7 framework (ERC No 246837), and by the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Molecular design. C.G. is a DST Ramanujan Fellow. D.M. is the holder of the Israel Matz Professorial Chair of Organic Chemistry. 

Supported by grants from the Israeli Academy of Sciences National Council for Research and Development Israel and the Bundesministerium for Forschung un Technologie (BMFT) Germany U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF). REFERENCES. 

The support of our research activities in Artificial Photosynthesis by the Kern-forschungsanlage, Julich, FRG, Israeli Council for Research and Development, U.S.-Israel Binational Foundation, and Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, is gratefully acknowledged. The names of the co-workers who performed the research appear in the list of references. Their skills and enthusiasm enabled the scientific progress. 

Acknowledgements. We thank Professor M. D. Cohen for his comments on this paper. We are grateful to F. Frolow for assistance in the A -ray structure analysis of the s-butyl anthroate and to Edna Gati for her enthusiastic and faithful assistance in the performance of many of the experiments described here. We are indebted to the Israel Academy of Sciences, the Israel National Council for Research and Development, and theU.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, Jerusalem, without whose financial support all this work would not have been possible. 

The author acknowledges with thanks the financial support of the Israel National Council for Research and Development, which enabled this work to be carried out. Thanks are due to Mr. E. Goldberg of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, for editorial advice. 

This work was supported in part by the National Council for Research and Development, Ministry of Science and Development, Israel. Thanks are due to A. S. Taylor for help with some of the experimental work. L. W. Steenbakkers is a Visiting Graduate Student from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Eindhoven lAiiversity of Technology, The Netherlands. H. D. Wagner is the recipient of the J. and A. Laniado Career Development Chair. 

Jacob Klein gained his BA in physics at the University of Cambridge where in 1977 he also received his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory. He did his postdoc at the Weizmann Institute in Israel and from 1980 to 1984 he was a senior scientist at the Weizmann Institute and a university demonstrator at the Cavendish Laboratory. Since 1984 he has been a professor at the Weizmann Institute (full professor from 1987) and subsequently headed its Polymer Research Department and was chairman of its Scientific Council. From 2000 to 2007 he was the Dr. Lee s professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford and head of its Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory (2000-2005). His interests in the physics of soft matter have ranged from the dynamics and interfacial properties of polymers to confined fluids and biological lubrication. His honors include the Charles Vernon Boys Prize of the Institute of PhysicS UK (1984) the High Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society (1995) and the Prize for Excellence of the Israel Chemical Society (2010). 

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