David Cahen
Israeli chemist
David Cahen (Hebrew: דוד כאהן; born August 14, 1947) is an Israeli chemist and materials scientist, Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science and former Head of the Department of Materials and Interfaces (now part of "Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science"). He is an expert in renewable energy, bioelectronics, and optoelectronic materials. Among other awards, he received the Gold Medal of the Israel Chemical Society for 2024.
Biography
Early life
David (Ferdinand) Cahen was born in the village of Vught in the south of the Netherlands. He is the son of Henriette ("Jet", née Elion) and Max Cahen, Holocaust survivors whose ancestors came to the Netherlands in the 17th and 19th century, from Portugal and the Ottoman Palestine and from the Alsace via Germany. He is the brother of Geertruida Helena (Truus) Wertheim and Joel Jacob; his great uncle from his mother’s side was the Dutch politician, early socialist Salomon Rodrigues de Miranda.
His grade and high school education was in the Netherlands and he developed an interest in science from a young age. Inspired by his high school teacher, he decided to study chemistry, and in 1965, he started chemistry studies at the University of Amsterdam. About half a year later, he immigrated to Israel, where he continued for a B.Sc. degree in physics and chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which he completed in 1969.
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