Graham Fleming

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Graham Richard Fleming (born December 3, 1949 in Barrow (today Barrow-in-Furness ), Cumbria ) is a British-American physical chemist.

Fleming graduated from the University of Bristol with a bachelor's degree in 1971 and received his doctorate in 1974 with George Porter at the University of London . He was a post-doctoral student at Caltech and the University of Melbourne. From 1977 to 1979 he was a Leverhulme Fellow of the Royal Institute. In 1979 he became an Assistant Professor, 1983 Associate Professor and 1985 Professor at the University of Chicago . In 1987 he became Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor there and was head of the chemistry faculty for three years. During this time he led the founding of the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics. In 1997 he became Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley , where he is Melvin Cahn Distinguished Professor of Chemical Biodynamics. In 2009 he became Vice Chancellor for Research. He founded a Department of Physical Bioscience at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (NBNL), which was its deputy director from 2004 to 2006. He was the co-founder and director of the Institute for Quantiative Bioscience in Berkeley.

He dealt with ultrafast spectroscopy of reaction dynamics in solution, the primary process of photosynthesis (and other associated phenomena such as repair and protection as well as regulation of the photosynthetic apparatus in interdisciplinary collaboration with molecular biologists and geneticists) and internal movement in proteins and peptides.

His group tries to develop artificial ones based on the study of natural photosynthesis systems. Using two-dimensional electron spectroscopy, his group demonstrated the existence of long-lived quantum mechanical coherence in the light-harvesting complex .

He also deals with various nanostructures such as nanotubes.

In 1980 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). In 1998 Fleming received the Peter Debye Award , 2002 the Earle K. Plyler Prize , 1985 the Coblentz Award, the Remsen Award , 1981 the Marlow Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 1996 the Inter-American Photochemical Society Award, 1996 the Centenary Lecture and Medal the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2004 the Porter Medal of the European Photochemistry Association, 2008 the Ahmed Zewail Award and 1991 the Tilden Medal. For 2016, Fleming was awarded the Faraday Lecture and Prize . He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the National Academy of Sciences and, since 1991, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1994 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 2011 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society .

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Graham R. Fleming at academictree.org, accessed on February 6, 2018th
  3. ^ Member History: Graham R. Fleming. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Fleming, Graham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fleming, Graham Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Barrow-in-Furness