Carl Lineberger

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William Carl Lineberger (born December 5, 1939 in Hamlet ) is an American physical chemist.

Lineberger studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1961, a master's degree in 1963 and a doctorate in 1965 with the topic The ionization of lithium ions by electron impact . After that he was assistant professor for electrical engineering there. In 1965 he became a research physicist in atmospheric physics at the Aberdeen Proving Ground of the US Army and from 1968 he was at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), where he became an assistant professor in 1970 and later professor. He has been an EU Condon Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Fellow of JILA since 1985 .

He developed photoelectron spectroscopy with negative ions (anion photoelectron spectroscopy). He deals with the structure and stability of ions and free radicals and the photophysics and dynamics of ion clusters. He uses laser spectroscopy with ultrashort pulses.

In 2004 he received the Peter Debye Award and in 1996 the Irving Langmuir Award . In 2015 he received the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences . In 1988 he received the Meggers Prize of the Optical Society of America, in 1993 he gave the Pimentel Lecture in Berkeley, in 1992 the Kistiakowsky Lecture at Harvard and in 1990 the Davidson Lecture at the University of Kansas. In 1981 he received the Herbert P. Broida Prize of the APS and in 1992 the Earle K. Plyler Prize.

He was visiting professor at Stanford, Chicago, the University of California, Irvine, the University of Florida and the University of Rochester, among others.

He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1972 he received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ). In 1981/82 he was a Guggenheim Fellow.

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of W. Carl Lineberger at academictree.org, accessed on May 26, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Lineberger, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lineberger, William Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamlet