David Chandler (chemist)
David Chandler (born October 15, 1944 in Brooklyn - † April 18, 2017 ) was an American chemist ( physical chemistry ). He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley .
Career
Chandler studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1966 and received his doctorate in chemical physics from Harvard University in 1969 with Roy Gerald Gordon on The mode expansion, a new method in statistical mechanics . In 1970 he became an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he received a full professorship in 1977. From 1983 to 1985 he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and from 1986 to 2015 he was a professor at Berkeley.
He dealt with statistical mechanics , especially structure, molecular dynamics and quantum processes in liquids, chemical equilibria in and kinetics of liquids, aqueous solutions and hydrophobic effects, polymer melts and mixtures and complex liquids also in biology. He developed techniques for treating systems far from equilibrium, statistical mechanics in trajectory space, with which he investigated the glass transition, among other things.
In 1982 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (each since 1995) and the Royal Society (since 2011). In 2005 he received the Irving Langmuir Award , the American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry in 1996 and the Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in 1998 . In 1999 he received the Humboldt Research Award . From 1972 to 1974 he was a Sloan Research Fellow and 1981/82 Guggenheim Fellow .
He was a consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory and the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and has been with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1996 . He was visiting scholar at the École normal supérieure in Lyon, at Oxford University , at Columbia University (visiting professor 1977/78) and was Miller Professor in Berkeley in 1991.
Fonts
- Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics, Oxford University Press 1987
Web links
- Homepage of his research group
- Biography on his website in Berkeley
- Autobiography published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (J. Phys. Chem. B 2005, 109, 6459-6464)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Member Directory: David Chandler. National Academy of Sciences , accessed April 20, 2017 .
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of David Chandler in academictree.org, accessed on 23 January 2018th
- ↑ Merolle, Garahan, Chandler The Space-time thermodynamics of glass transition , Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 102, 2005, pp. 10837-10840
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Chandler, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 2017 |