text: Harold Basch was born in 1940 in the Bronx, New York City. He obtained his B.A. from Yeshiva University (1962) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University (1966) under the supervision of Harry B. Gray.
  He did a postdoctoral research at Bell Telephone Laboratories (1966-1968) and was a principal research scientist at
  Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Michigan) (1968–1971). In 1970 he joined the chemistry department at Bar-Ilan University (BIU) as an associate professor and became a full professor in 1977. He lived in Rehovot was married to Julia and had 5 children.