Benton Seymour Rabinovitch


Seymour Rabinovitch was a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle, whose work measured the efficiency with which energy is transferred between molecules in gas-phase ion chemistry.

Awards and honours

Rabinovitch was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987.

Personal life

Rabinovitch had four children, and later in life became an expert silversmith, an author of children's books and a philanthropist.
As a patron of silversmithing, he commissioned the creation of cake, pudding, and fish-servers from artists in the U.S. and Britain.