Julio de Paula

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Julio de Paula (* in Brazil ) is a Brazilian chemist. He is Professor of Chemistry at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon .

Julio de Paula graduated from Rutgers University with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1982 and received her PhD from Yale University in 1987 with a dissertation in biophysical chemistry. He then taught at Haverford College before going to Lewis & Clark College in 2005.

He deals with molecular spectroscopy, biophysical chemistry and nanosciences. Recently he has been pursuing practical applications in environmental technology such as nanowires as a component of solar systems and cheap solar-powered systems for water purification . He is also active in applications of chemistry in archeology and collaborates with excavators in Spain, among others.

He is co-author of Peter W. Atkins on the reprint of his textbooks on physical chemistry.

From 2010 to 2012 he was Program Director in the Chemistry Section of the National Science Foundation.

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  • with Peter W. Atkins: Physical Chemistry: Thermodynamics, Structure, and Change, 10th Edition, Oxford University Press, 2014
  • with Peter W. Atkins, Ronald Friedman: Physical Chemistry: Quanta, Matter, and Change, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2014
  • with Peter W. Atkins: Elements of Physical Chemistry, 6th Edition, Oxford University Press, 2013
  • with Peter W. Atkins: Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences, 2nd edition, WH Freeman and Company, New York 2011

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