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JOSHUA JORTNER is Heinemann Professor of Chemistry at Tel Aviv University's School of Chemistry, where he has been on the faculty since 1964. Professor Jortner is President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, former President of the Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the recipient of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1988).

M. BIXON is Chemistry Professor at Tel Aviv University's School of Chemistry, where he has been on the faculty since 1966. He holds a PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

Interplay Between Ultrafast Polar Solvation and Vibrational Dynamics in Electron Transfer Reactions: Role of High-Frequency Vibrational Modes (B. Bagchi & N. Gayathri).

Solvent Control of Electron Transfer Reactions (F. Raineri & H. Friedman).

Theoretical and Experimental Study of Ultrafast Solvation Dynamics by Transient Four-Photon Spectroscopy (B. Fainberg & D. Huppert).

Coherence and Adiabaticity in Ultrafast Electron Transfer (K. Wynne & R. Hochstrasser).

Electron Transfer and Solvent Dynamics in Two- and Three-State Systems (M. Cho & G. Fleming).

Ultrafast Intermolecular Electron Transfer in Solution (K. Yoshihara).

Electron Transfer in Molecules and Molecular Wires: Geometry Dependence, Coherent Transfer, and Control (V. Mujica, et al.).

Electron Transfer and Exciplex Chemistry (N. Mataga & H. Miyasaka).

Electron-Transfer Tubes (J. Regan & J. Onuchic).

Copper Proteins as Model Systems for Investigating Intramolecular Electron Transfer Processes (O. Farver & I. Pecht).

Applying Marcus's Theory to Electron Transfer in Vivo (G. McLendon, et al.).

Solvent-Fluctuation Control of Solution Reactions and Its Manifestation in Protein Functions (H. Sumi).

Experimental Electron Transfer Kinetics in a DNA Environment (P. Barbara & E. Olson).

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