Paras N. Prasad (postdoc) Raoul Kopelman (October 21, 1933 – July 20, 2023[1]) was a scientist, inventor, and the Richard Smalley Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Applied Physics, Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Biology at the University of Michigan.

Later, while living in Tel Aviv and in the sixth grade, his science teacher loaned him a German booklet on chemical experiments.

The club included Assa Lifshitz (who went on to become a professor at the department of physical chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Joshua Jortner (who went on to become a professor at the school of chemistry, Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel).

As an educator, Kopelman successfully trained many active scientists in the fields of chemistry, biomedical engineering, applied physics and others.

Students of his included Weihong Tan (PhD), Paras N. Prasad (postdoc), and Nobel laureate Richard Smalley (undergraduate researcher).