Background
Klein, Jacob was born on August 20, 1949 in Tel Aviv.
Klein, Jacob was born on August 20, 1949 in Tel Aviv.
Bachelor, University Cambridge, England, 1973. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, University Cambridge, England, 1977.
Klein was an undergraduate and graduate at Cambridge University and held a research fellowship and later a fellowship at Saint Catharine"s College, Cambridge between 1976 and 1984. He held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Polymer Research, Weizmann Institute 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 throughout 1989 to 1991.
In October 2000 Klein was appointed as Head of the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford.
He is a fellow of Exeter College, and until 2008 held the Doctor Lee"s Chair of Chemistry, a position previously held by Nobel prize winners Frederick Soddy and Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood. He was succeeded in that position by Professor Carol Robinson.
Professor Klein currently heads a research group at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Married, 1974; 4 children.