Mark A. Ratner

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Mark A. Ratner (born December 8, 1942 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American physical chemist and professor at Northwestern University .

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Ratner received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1964 and his PhD from Northwestern University in 1969 . As a post-doctoral student , he was in Aarhus and at the Technical University of Munich in 1969/70 . In 1970 he became an assistant professor and later an associate professor at New York University and from 1975 at Northwestern University, where he had a full professorship from 1980. From 1988 to 1991 he was chairman of the faculty.

He is a theoretical chemist who particularly studies charge transport in molecular structures with applications in molecular electronics. In 1974 he proposed the first molecular rectifier with Ari Aviram . He also deals with quantum dynamics, self-assembly , non-linear optics of molecules and mechanisms of energy storage in the nano range ( photovoltaics , batteries).

He was visiting scholar in Denmark (including visiting professor in Odense ), the Netherlands and Israel, where he was a fellow of the Jerusalem Advanced Study Institute.

In 1973 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . Ratner is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences , the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Danish Academy of the sciences . He received the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology in the theory category in 2001 , the Willard Gibbs Medal in 2012 and the Irving Langmuir Award in 2004 . For 2016 he was awarded the Peter Debye Award .

He has been married since 1969.

Fonts

  • with A. Nitzan: Electron transport in molecular wire junctions. In: Science . Volume 300, 2003, pp. 1384-1389
  • with C. Joachim: Molecular electronics: Some views on transport and beyond. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 102, 2005, p. 8800
  • with GR Hutchison, TJ Marks: Intermolecular charge transfer between heterocyclic oligomers. Effects of heteroatom and molecular packing on hopping transport in organic semiconductors. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society . Volume 127, 2005, pp. 16866-16881
  • with GC Solomon, C. Herrmann, T. Hansen, V. Mujica: Exploring local currents in molecular junctions. In: Nature Chemistry . Volume 2, 2010, pp. 223-228.
  • with George C. Schatz: Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry. Prentice-Hall 1993, Dover 2002
  • with George C. Schatz: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry. Prentice-Hall 2000
  • Editor with Joshua Jortner : Molecular Electronics. Blackwell Science 1997
  • Editor with Ari Aviram, Vladimiro Mujica: Molecular Electronics II. New York Academy of Sciences 2002
  • Editor with Ari Aviram: Molecular Electronics. Science and Technology. New York Academy of Sciences 1998
  • with Daniel Ratner: Nanotechnology and homeland security. New weapons for new wars. Prentice Hall / PTR 2004
  • with Daniel Ratner: Nanotechnology. A gentle introduction to the next big idea. Prentice-Hall 2003

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Aviram, Ratner: Molecular Rectifier. In: Chemical Physics Letters. Volume 29, 1974, p. 277
personal data
SURNAME Ratner, Mark A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio