Douglas Henderson (physical chemist)

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Douglas James Henderson (* 1934 in Calgary ) is a Canadian-American physical chemist who works in the field of the statistical physics of fluids.

Life

Douglas Henderson was born in Calgary and grew up in Vancouver , British Columbia . He first studied mathematics at the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree and then physics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City , where he received his doctorate in theoretical physical chemistry under Henry Eyring in 1961 . In the following years he worked at various universities and research institutions, such as a professor at the University of Idaho , Arizona State University and the University of Waterloo, as well as visiting scholar at institutions in Mexico, Australia and other countries. Before he retired, he worked as a scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San José for 26 years . He was then a professor at Brigham Young University in Provo , Utah.

Henderson made important contributions to the statistical mechanics of gases and liquids. In addition to perturbation theory methods, he applied various integral equation methods to calculate the thermodynamic properties of both simple systems ( models of hard spheres ) and complex systems (liquid electrolytes). His co-authors include Joel Lebowitz and Lesser Blum .

In 1964 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society , and from 1964 to 1966 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1990 he was elected a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences . In 1997 he was a Guggenheim fellow . In 1999 he received the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award from the American Chemical Society . In 2009 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry . In 2010 the Academy awarded him an honorary doctorate for his services in promoting cooperation with scientists at the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Lviv .

Henderson is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is close in his creed to his mentor, Henry Eyring.

Fonts (selection)

  • JA Barker, D. Henderson: Theory of liquids . In: Accounts of Chemical Research . tape 4 , no. 9 , 1971, p. 303-307 , doi : 10.1021 / ar50045a002 .
  • D. Henderson: Theory of simple mixtures . In: Annual Review of Physical Chemistry . tape 25 , 1974, p. 461-483 , doi : 10.1146 / annurev.pc.25.100174.002333 .
  • JA Barker, D. Henderson: What is "liquid"? Understanding the states of matter . In: Reviews of Modern Physics . tape 48 , no. 4 , 1976, p. 587-671 , doi : 10.1103 / RevModPhys.48.587 .
  • D. Henderson, E. Waisman, JL Lebowitz, L. Blum: Equation of state of a hard-core fluid with a Yukawa tail . In: Molecular Physics . tape 35 , no. 1 , 1978, p. 241-255 , doi : 10.1080 / 00268977800100181 .
  • D. Henderson: Practical calculations of the equation of state of fluids and fluid mixtures using perturbation theory and related theories . In: American Chemical Society (Ed.): Equations of State in Engineering and Research (=  Advances in Chemistry ). tape 182 , 1979, ISBN 978-0-8412-0500-0 , chap. 1 , doi : 10.1021 / ba-1979-0182.ch001 .
  • JA Barker, D. Henderson: The fluid phases of matter . In: Scientific American . tape 245 , no. 5 , 1981, pp. 130-139 .
  • D. Henderson: Recent progress in the theory of the electric double layer . In: Progress in Surface Science . tape 13 , no. 3 , 1983, p. 197-224 , doi : 10.1016 / 0079-6816 (83) 90004-7 .
  • D. Henderson, L. Blum, A. Tani: Equation of state of ionic fluids . In: American Chemical Society (Ed.): ACS Symposium Series . tape 300 , ISBN 978-0-8412-0958-9 , chap. 13 , p. 281-296 , doi : 10.1021 / bk-1986-0300.ch013 .

literature

  • JA Barker: Douglas Henderson: a life in statistical mechanics . In: Molecular Physics . tape 86 , no. 4 , 1995, p. 549-550 , doi : 10.1080 / 00268979500102191 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Douglas James Henderson. In: Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project . Retrieved November 20, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Retired BYU Professor, Dr. Douglas Henderson, admitted as Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). (No longer available online.) Brigham Young University, June 1, 2009, archived from the original on December 1, 2017 ; accessed on November 20, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cpms.byu.edu
  3. ^ Douglas J. Henderson: Mormon Scholars Testify. FairMormon, January 2011, accessed November 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Henderson, Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henderson, Douglas James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American physical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary