Shlomo Rozen was born in Bulgaria and immigrated to Israel as a small child. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and then spent 3 years in the Research Institute for Medicine and Chemistry, Cambridge, MA. under D. H. R. Barton, R. H. Hesse and M. M. Pechet. In 1976 he joined the School of Chemistry at the Tel Aviv University were he assumed the position of Professor of Chemistry in 1989. On multiple occasions he had held a position of visiting scientist at the Central Research Department of the Dupont Company. His main goal in chemistry is to demonstrate that elemental fluorine and reagents derived from it are very useful in general organic chemistry, as well as in fluorine chemistry, and chemists should discard their unjustified fears and prejudice against this long known but somewhat neglected element. He has published more than 230 research papers and patents and his work has been cited more than 4500 times. Rozen is the recipient of quite a few awards, including the “American Chemical Society” Award.