Background
WIDOM, Benjamin was born on October 13, 1927 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Morris Widom and Rebecca Hertz Widom.
WIDOM, Benjamin was born on October 13, 1927 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Morris Widom and Rebecca Hertz Widom.
AB, Columbia University, 1949; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1953; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Chicago, 1991; Doctor honoris causa, U. Utrecht, 1999.
Research associate, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1952-1954;
instructor chemistry, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1954-1955;
assistant professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1955-1959;
associate professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1959-1963;
professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1963-1983;
Goldwin Smith professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1983;
van der Waals professor, U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1972;
visiting professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975;
International Business Machines Corporation visiting professor, Oxford (England) University, 1978. Lorentz professor of University Leiden, The Netherlands, 1985. Visiting professor Catholic U. Louvain, Belgium, 1988, U. Aix Marseille, France, 1995.
Kramers/Debye professor of University Utrecht, 1999.
( Tracing the history of thought on the molecular origins...)
With United States Army, 1946-1947. Fellow American Physical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, New York Academy Sciences (Boris Pregel award for chemical physics research 1976). Member NAS, American Philos.Soc., American Chemical Society (Langmuir award in chemical physics 1982, Hildebrand award in theoretical and experimental chemistry of liquids 1992, Theoretical Chemistry award 1999).
Married Joanne McCurdy, December 21, 1953. Children: Jonathan, Michael, Elisabeth.