He
was born in Dunajska Streda, Slovakia (then in the Austria Hungary
Empire), the son of a pharmacist. From 1928, he worked as assistant
to the Nobel prizewinning chemist, Fritz Haber, at the Kaiser
Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem. When the
Nazis came to power he moved to Cambridge, England, and in 1934
joined the staff of the Sieff Institute in Rehovot and the Hebrew
University, Jerusalem, where he became professor of physical
chemistry. Farkas laid the foundations for the Research Council of
Israel. He excelled in various fields including photochemistry, gas
reactions and combustion. He was killed in an air crash while en
route to the US to buy scientific equipment.
Bibliography:
FARKAS, Adalbert, WIGNER, Eugene P. (Eds.).
L. Farkas memorial volume. Pp. 309. Jerusalem, 1952.
Prof. L. Farka´s, 1904-1948: sipurah
shel halutsiyut mada`it. Pp. 44, 48. Yerushalayim: Bet ha-sefarim
ha-le'umi veha-universita'i, [1998]
Kovets L. Farkas, zal. Pp. 81.
Yerushalayim: 1952/1953
Links:
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