In another installment of our “Zoomposium series” on the topic of “Physics and its limits”, my colleague Axel Stöcker from the “Blog of Big Questions” and I had the opportunity to conduct an interview with the renowned Israeli physical chemist Prof. Dr. Arieh Ben-Naim on the exciting topic of “Demystifying entropy”.
Arieh, who was born on July 11, 1934, held a chair in physical chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for over 40 years, with his main field of research being the theory of the structure of water, aqueous solutions and hydrophobic-hydrophilic interactions. He has been mainly concerned with theoretical and experimental aspects of the general theory of liquids and solutions. In recent years,