Paul Davidovits was born in 1935 in Moldava, a small town in Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). His mother and Paul survived the holocaust by using forged Arian documents, and rapidly moving from town to town whenever anyone appeared to become suspicious of their identities. By the time WW2 ended, all of Paul’s paternal family and most of his maternal family had been killed. In 1949 the remnant of the family immigrated to Toronto, Canada. There, Paul completed high school, and continued his education at Columbia University, receiving the B.S. (1960), M.S. (1961) and Ph.D.(1964) degrees in a joint program in Physics and Electrical Engineering. In 1964 – 1965 he was appointed at Columbia University as Research Associate in Physics and Lecturer in Electrical Engineering. In 1965 he joined the faculty at Yale University as Assistant Professor of Applied Science (1965 – 1970), and then as Associate Professor (1970 – 1974). In 1974 he accepted an appointment at Boston College as Professor of Chemistry, a position he retained for 46 years. From 1994 to 1998 he was Chairman of the Boston College Chemistry Department. After teaching and doing research for 56 years in a variety of fields, including quantum devices, chemical kinetics, medical physics, atmospheric chemistry, and climate change, Davidovits retired from academia on June 30, 2020 as Professor of Chemistry Emeritus. His scientific work is described in 170 publications he has authored or co-authored. He has written two textbooks (one of them currently in its 5th edition), and has co-edited a text on the alkali-halide vapors. He holds three patents. He has received several awards for his work including, together with R. Minsky and D. Egger, the Year 2000, R.W. Wood Prize “for seminal contributions to confocal microscopy”. He has been married since 1957 and has two adult children.