James Ibers
James Arthur Ibers (born June 9, 1930 in Los Angeles ) is an American chemist who specializes in inorganic and solid-state chemistry.
Life
Ibers studied at Caltech with a bachelor's degree in 1951 and received his doctorate in 1954 with James Holmes Sturdivant with the thesis Studies in electron and x-ray diffraction . As a post-doctoral student , he did research for CSIRO in Australia. He was a chemist at Shell from 1955 to 1961 and at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1961 to 1964 , before becoming Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University in 1965 . He has been a Morrison Professor there since 1986 .
He dealt with metal compounds to chalcogens other than oxygen (sulfur, selenium, tellurium) and their characteristic differences from metal oxides (no closest packing, building blocks other than tetrahedron and octahedron, layer formation, chalcogen-chalcogen bonds with many different bond lengths). In particular, he dealt with chalcogen compounds of the actinides (uranium, thorium, neptunium), partly at the Argonne National Laboratory . He examined their structure with X-ray crystal diffraction and their physical properties (transport, optical and magnetic properties).
He has been married since 1951 and has two children.
Honors and memberships
- 1979 American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry
- 1981/82 as a Fairchild Scholar at Caltech
- 1992 Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry, ACS
- 1994 Linus Pauling Award
- 1997 Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award
- 1999 Luigi Sacconi Medal, Italian Chemical Society
- 2002 Martin J. Buerger Award from the American Crystallographic Association
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1984) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991).
Fonts
- with Walter C. Hamilton Hydrogen bonding in solids; methods of molecular structure determination , Benjamin 1968
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of James Arthur Ibers at academictree.org, accessed on February 13, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ibers, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ibers, James A .; Ibers, James Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |