Sol Kimel

Salo "Sol" Kimel (; 7 October 1928 – 14 August 2021) was an Israeli chemical physicist. He was a professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology between 1977 and 1997 and performed research into biomedical applications of lasers.

Biography Kimel was born on 7 October 1928 in Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany. His mother was Eva-Kimel Goldberg. His parents split in 1930 and Kimel together with his mother moved in with her sister and her family in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, while his father remained in Berlin. After being in kindergarten for two years he attended a Montessori school for six years. During his childhood in Amsterdam he was friends with Anne Frank.

After the war Kimel studied science in Amsterdam and also became active in Habonim. In 1994 he was interviewed by David A. Slavkin of the Anti-Defamation League of Orange County, California on his history as a survivor of the Holocaust, the files were copied to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.

Kimel died in Haifa on 14 August 2021 at the age 92.