John T. Yates

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John Thomas Yates Jr. (born August 3, 1935 in Winchester , Virginia , † September 26, 2015 in Free Union , Virginia) was an American physical chemist ( surface chemistry and physics ).

Yates studied chemistry at Juniata College with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and received his PhD in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960 with Carl W. Garland . He was then an assistant professor at Antioch College in Yellow Springs (Ohio) and from 1965 at the National Bureau of Standards (NIST). In 1982 he became a professor at the University of Pittsburgh . He was there in both chemistry and physics faculties and founding director of the Surface Science Center. From 2006 he was Professor and Shannon Research Fellow at the University of Virginia .

He published over 750 papers on surface chemistry and surface physics (spectra of absorbed molecules, kinetics of adsorption and desorption, heterogeneous catalysis, electron scattering on adsorbed molecules, electronic properties of chemically adsorbed surfaces, chemistry of semiconductor surfaces and nanosciences). Most recently he also dealt with astrochemistry.

In 1978 he received the Samuel Wesley Stratton Award from NIST, in 1987 the ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry , in 1994 the Medard W. Welch Award from the American Vacuum Society , in 1999 the ACS Award in Surface Chemistry and in 2007 the Peter Debye Award . In 1994 he received the Humboldt Research Award . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (since 1996) and a fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1977/78 he was Sherman Fairchild Scholar at Caltech and 1970/71 visiting scholar at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.

He had been married since 1958 and had three sons.

Web links

Fonts

  • Editor with Theodore E. Madey: Vibrational Spectroscopy of Molecules on Surfaces, Plenum, 1987
  • Editor with Others: Chemical Perspectives of Microelectronic Materials, Materials Research Society , 1989
  • The Surface Scientists Guide to Organometallic Chemistry, ACS, 1987
  • with J. Karl Johnson: Molecular Physical Chemistry for Engineers, University Science Books, Sausalito 2007
  • Experimental Innovations in Surface Science, Springer-Verlag and The American Institute of Physics 1998, 2nd edition 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Yates, John T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yates, John Thomas Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Winchester , Virginia , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 2015
Place of death Free Union , Virginia , United States