Albert Haim was born in Paris, France, in 1931. He moved to Uruguay in the 1930s. He received his elementary (1936-1942) and high school educations (1942-1948) at the Lycée Français de Montevideo. He won a competitive Analytical Chemistry contest in 1952 and became a fellow at the Instituto de Quimica, University of Uruguay 1952-1954. Albert received an Engineering Chemistry degree at the University of Uruguay in 1954 and a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Southern California in 1960. In 1961 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University with Henry Taube, 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was assistant and associate professor of chemistry at the Pennsylvania State University (1962-1966) and professor of chemistry at Stony Brook University (1966-2001). He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow 1964-1967. He was the recipient of the Stony Brook Undergraduate Chemistry Society Best Teacher Awards in 1972 and 1976. Albert was awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1981 and the SUNY Stony Brook Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award in 1994. He was a Visiting Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1965 and 1994. He was associate editor of the American Chemical Society journal “Inorganic Chemistry” (1990-2001). Albert has published over 100 papers on the subject of Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms, in particular Electron Transfer Reactions of Coordination Compounds. He was a visiting professor at the Universities of Tucuman (Argentina), Lisbonne (Portugal) and Neuchâtel (Switzerland). He has given Plenary Lecures at International Conferences on Coordination Compounds in England, Hungary, Brazil, Argentina and Switzerland. Haim was the 54th Stony Brook Chemistry Department Commencement Speaker on May 17, 2024.