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From page 165... ... During the previous eight years, he was the Albert Einstein Professor of Science at the City College of the City University of New York as well as a distinguished professor of chemical engineering and of physics at the City College. He also held a dual appointment as a professor of physics at the University of Tel Aviv. Read the entire page →
From page 166... ... Ben Levich was a researcher of extraordinary originality and productivitywho, during his lifetime, authored more than three hundred scientific papers ranging from electrochemistry to turbulence, flows with chemical reactions, and flows dominated by variations in surface tension. He was, for example, the first to show conclusively that the seemingly paracloxical observation that the rise velocity of small air bubbles in viscous liquids equals that of solid spheres having the same density is clue to the accumulation of trace amounts of surface-active agents on the gas-liquid interface. Read the entire page →
From page 167... ... All at once, his chair at the university was abolished and his status at the Electrochemistry Institute was reduced to that of a scientific worker without supervisory responsibilities. In addition, his former colleagues and collaborators, almost without exception, found reasons to distance themselves from him; Sovietjournal editors declined to publish his articles; and his frequently cited name was laboriously excised from all the copies of Western publications distributed in the U.S.S.R. Read the entire page →
From page 168... ... Aviv had, for several years, been keeping a chair ready for the most distinguished Soviet scientist ever to settle in his ethnic home. The followingyear, Benjamin Levich accepted the prestigious Albert Einstein Professorship in Science at the City College of the City University of New York, where he also founded the Institute of Applied Chemical Physics, renamed the Levich Institute upon his cleath. Read the entire page →

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... During the previous eight years, he was the Albert Einstein Professor of Science at the City College of the City University of New York as well as a distinguished professor of chemical engineering and of physics at the City College. He also held a dual appointment as a professor of physics at the University of Tel Aviv.

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... Ben Levich was a researcher of extraordinary originality and productivitywho, during his lifetime, authored more than three hundred scientific papers ranging from electrochemistry to turbulence, flows with chemical reactions, and flows dominated by variations in surface tension. He was, for example, the first to show conclusively that the seemingly paracloxical observation that the rise velocity of small air bubbles in viscous liquids equals that of solid spheres having the same density is clue to the accumulation of trace amounts of surface-active agents on the gas-liquid interface.

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... All at once, his chair at the university was abolished and his status at the Electrochemistry Institute was reduced to that of a scientific worker without supervisory responsibilities. In addition, his former colleagues and collaborators, almost without exception, found reasons to distance themselves from him; Sovietjournal editors declined to publish his articles; and his frequently cited name was laboriously excised from all the copies of Western publications distributed in the U.S.S.R.

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... Aviv had, for several years, been keeping a chair ready for the most distinguished Soviet scientist ever to settle in his ethnic home. The followingyear, Benjamin Levich accepted the prestigious Albert Einstein Professorship in Science at the City College of the City University of New York, where he also founded the Institute of Applied Chemical Physics, renamed the Levich Institute upon his cleath.

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Benjamin G. Levich Pages 164-169

Benjamin G. Levich
Pages 164-169