Kevin K. Lehmann

Kevin K. Lehmann (born September 7, 1955 in Newark (New Jersey) ) is an American chemist ( physical chemistry , spectroscopy ). He is a professor at the University of Virginia .

Lehrmann studied chemistry, physics and mathematics at Rutgers University (Cook College) with a bachelor's degree in 1977 and received his doctorate in 1983 from Harvard University . His dissertation with William Klemperer was about highly excited vibrational states in molecules with photoacoustic spectroscopy. He was then a Junior Fellow at Harvard until 1986, where he was partially at the George Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . From 1985 he was at Princeton University , where he became an associate professor in 1991 and a professor in 1995. In 2005 he became a professor at the University of Virginia .

He dealt with intramolecular dynamics (relaxation of energy, intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution, IVR) of polyatomic molecules including studies of classical and quantum chaos, on which he worked for many years with Giacinto Scoles from 1987 .

Lehmann is also known for developing spectroscopic techniques. At MIT, he and Stephen Coy developed the technique of microwave-detected microwave-optical double resonance. He received the Thomas A. Edison Patent Award for the development of the Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy (CRDS). He also applies the spectroscopic methods he developed to the detection of trace gases and conducts chemical research on molecules that are dissolved in drops of liquid helium (also in collaboration with Scoles).

He received the Presidential Young Investigator Award and in 1987 the Dreyfus Award in Princeton. In 1995 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2003 he received the Earle K. Plyler Prize with Giacinto Scoles .

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