Alden Mead

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Chester Alden Mead , called Alden Mead, (born December 9, 1932 in St. Louis , Missouri ) is an American chemist ( physical chemistry ).

Mead studied at Carleton College ( Bachelor 1954) and in 1957 at the Washington University I. Samuel Weissman in the work Quantum theory of the refractive index doctorate . From 1958 he was assistant professor and later professor of physical chemistry at the University of Minnesota . In 1993 he retired. He lives in Savannah , Georgia .

In 1957/58 he was at Brookhaven National Laboratory , where he continued to work as a consultant until 1963. In 1964/65 he was visiting professor at Birkbeck College in London, 1971/72 at the Free University of Berlin and 1980/81 at RWTH Aachen University . In 2012 he received the Wigner Medal for work on gauge theories of molecules with applications to their spectra and scattering theory. With Donald G. Truhlar , he investigated geometric phases in the quantum mechanics of molecules early in 1979 .

In 1959 he proposed the Planck length as the fundamental length (and the Planck time as the fundamental unit of time), which at that time was largely rejected.

In 1989 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society ; In 2012 he was awarded the Wigner Medal .

Mead is married and has two daughters.

Fonts

  • Symmetry and Chirality. Springer Verlag 1974
  • The geometric phase in molecular systems . In: Reviews of Modern Physics . tape 64 , no. 1 , January 1, 1992, p. 51-85 , doi : 10.1103 / RevModPhys.64.51 .
  • Molecular Kramer's degeneracy and non-Abelian adiabatic phase factors . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 59 , no. 2 , July 13, 1987, p. 161-164 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.59.161 .
  • with Peter Sturrock, Timothy Groves, Alexander Ershkovich, Herman Batelaan, Akira Tonomura: More variations on Aharonov – Bohm . In: Physics Today . tape 63 , no. 4 , 2010, p. 8-9 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.3397054 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science . Thomson Gale 2004.
  2. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of C. Alden Mead at academictree.org, accessed on January 2, 2019.
  3. ^ Wigner Medal for Mead, University of Minneapolis .
  4. ^ C. Alden Mead, Donald G. Truhlar: On the determination of Born-Oppenheimer nuclear motion wave functions including complications due to conical intersections and identical nuclei . In: The Journal of Chemical Physics . tape 70 , no. 5 , March 1, 1979, pp. 2284-2296 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.437734 . Reprinted in Shapere, Wilczek Geometric phases in physics . World Scientific, 1989.
  5. ^ Memories of Mead in: C. Alden Mead, Frank Wilczek: Walking the Planck Length through History . In: Physics Today . tape 54 , no. 11 , 2001, p. 15-81 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.1428424 . The publication was delayed by five years until 1964 due to rejection by the referees
  6. ^ C. Alden Mead: Possible Connection Between Gravitation and Fundamental Length . In: Physical Review . tape 135 , 3B, August 10, 1964, pp. B849-B862 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRev.135.B849 .
  7. ^ C. Alden Mead: Observable Consequences of Fundamental-Length Hypotheses . In: Physical Review . tape 143 , no. 4 , March 25, 1966, p. 990-1005 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRev.143.990 .
personal data
SURNAME Mead, Alden
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mead, Chester Alden (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri