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Lorenz Cederbaum

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Lorenz Cederbaum · Science & Medicine

What

Theoretical chemist who predicted interatomic Coulombic decay

When

1946, Braunschweig, Germany

Where

Germany

Biography

Lorenz Cederbaum is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Theoretical chemist who predicted interatomic Coulombic decay

How & why

Lorenz S. Cederbaum is a theoretical chemist and physicist at Heidelberg University who in the late 1990s predicted interatomic (intermolecular) Coulombic decay (ICD), a fast relaxation process in which an excited atom or molecule transfers energy to a neighbor, ejecting a low-energy electron; ICD was later confirmed experimentally and is important in radiation chemistry and biology. He is documented among leading Jewish scientists in chemistry.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

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Theoretical chemist who predicted interatomic Coulombic decay

1946

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry