Kenneth B. Eisenthal

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Kenneth B. Eisenthal (born March 23, 1933 in New York City ) is an American physical chemist .

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Eisenthal studied at Harvard University , where he received an MA in physics and a Ph.D. in the field of chemical physics. Marshall Fixman was the supervisor of his doctoral thesis . He then went to the Chemistry Department of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) as a postdoc . Here he gained experience in molecular spectroscopy in Mostafa El-Sayed's research group . In 1965 he published his first work in this field with El-Sayed. After his stay at UCLA, he briefly went to an aviation company and then to the IBM Almaden Research Centerwhere he did research in the Chemical Physics Group. The application of lasers in chemistry (laser chemistry) became his main field of work. With the development of the picosecond laser in the late 1960s, new possibilities for measuring molecular relaxation processes opened up. Eisenthal made important contributions to the then new field of picosecond laser spectroscopy . In 1975 he moved to Columbia University , where he received a professorship ( Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry ). At Columbia University, he first carried out fundamental studies on free electrons in water, on the photochemistry of carbenes and on other photochemical processes (photoisomerization), before focusing on the application of lasers to investigate the equilibrium and dynamic properties of molecules at liquid interfaces and concentrated at solid interfaces.

Eisenthal published more than 200 scientific articles. Nicholas Turro is one of his co-authors . Eisenthal has received numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim scholarship in 1984 . In 1986 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . The American Chemical Society honored him with the Arthur W. Adamson Award in 1998 , the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in 2006 and the ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry in 2014. In 2000 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • DH Auston, KB Eisenthal (ed.): Ultrafast Phenomena IV (=  Springer Series in Chemical Physics . Volume 38 ). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo 1984, ISBN 978-3-642-82380-0 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-82378-7 .
  • Kenneth B. Eisenthal: Equilibrium and dynamic processes at interfaces by second harmonic and sum frequency generation . In: Annual Review of Physical Chemistry . tape 43 , 1992, pp. 627-661 .

literature

  • The Eisenthal Group: Biography of Kenneth B. Eisenthal . In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C . tape 111 , no. 25 , 2007, p. 8699-8702 , doi : 10.1021 / jp079508f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ KB Eisenthal, MA El-Sayed: Heavy-atom effects on radiative and radiationless processes in charge-transfer complexes . In: Journal of Chemical Physics . tape 42 , no. 2 , 1965, p. 794-796 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.1696013 .
  2. ^ Member Directory: Kenneth B. Eisenthal. National Academy of Sciences, accessed November 10, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Eisenthal, Kenneth B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City