Frank H. Stillinger
Frank Henry Stillinger (born August 15, 1934 in Boston ) is an American chemist who works in physical chemistry.
Stillinger graduated from the University of Rochester with a bachelor's degree in 1955 (with Frank P. Buff ) and received his PhD from Yale University in 1958 with John G. Kirkwood (he also heard from Lars Onsager ). He was at Bell Laboratories from 1959 to 2001 . After being a visiting scientist at Princeton University in 1996 , he has been a Senior Scientist there since 2003.
From the 1960s onwards he dealt with the structure of liquids, especially water and aqueous solutions, with molecular dynamics simulations , beginning in 1967/68 with the construction of an effective potential between water molecules with Arieh Ben Naim. He worked with Aneesur Rahman and later with Thomas A. Weber, with whom he developed the Stillinger-Weber potential for silicon (1985).
He also deals with phase transitions, the structure and kinetics of metastable materials such as glass, spontaneous breakage of the chiral symmetry in molecules with application to the chemical processes in the origin of life, fundamental questions of quantum chemistry , geometric aspects of packing problems .
Honors and memberships
- 1978 Elliott Cresson Medal
- 1986 Joel Henry Hildebrand Award from the ACS
- 1989 Irving Langmuir Award
- 1992 Peter Debye Award
- 2002 Lars Onsager Lecture and Professorship
- 2013 American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry
He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1984 and became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1963 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stillinger, Frank H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stillinger, Frank Henry (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |