Memory

David Samuel, the 3rd Viscount Samuel, was born in 1922 and educated at Oxford. He has been since 1987 Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute at Rehovot, Israel, having joined the Institute in 1949 and become Professor of Physical Chemistry in 1967. He has been a visiting professor in the UK and USA, including periods at Harvard and Yale. He has produced more than 300 papers, reviews and parts of collective volumes on physical chemistry, reaction mechanisms, neurochemistry, psycho-pharmacology, animal behaviour, education and the history and teaching of science. He has served on numerous public scientific bodies.