George C. Treasure

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George Chappell Schatz (born April 14, 1949 in Watertown (New York) ) is an American physical chemist.

Schatz graduated from Clarkson University with a bachelor's degree in 1971 and received a PhD in chemistry from Caltech in 1975 . He was a post-doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 1976 he became Assistant Professor and in 1982 Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University .

He deals with theoretical chemistry and quantum chemistry (quantum mechanical reactive scattering, potential energy surfaces, simulation of classical trajectories, energy transfer in collisions), combustion kinetics, spectroscopy on surfaces (e.g. surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy), classical electrodynamics down to nano dimensions, e.g. near rough metal surfaces, and with the optical properties of nanoparticles and their clusters. For example, he investigated gold nanoparticles that are bound to DNA or peptides and the formation and self-assembly of thin films.

In 2005 he received the Peter Debye Award and in 2016 the Irving Langmuir Award . He received the Max Planck Research Prize in 1993 , the Hirschfelder Prize of the University of Wisconsin, the Bourke Medal of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry and in 1983 the National Fresenius Award from Phi Lambda Upsilon. He was an advisor to the Batelle Columbus Laboratory and the Argonne National Laboratory. In 2008 he received the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology for the modeling and optimization of the Dip Pen Nanolithography Method of nanofabrication and his explanation of plasmon effects in metallic nanodots.

He has been editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry since 1993. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences . From 1980 to 1982 he was a Sloan Research Fellow .

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  • with Mark A. Ratner : Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry , Prentice-Hall 1993, Dover 2000

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
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SURNAME Sweetheart, George C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schat, George Chappell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Watertown (New York)