Martin Quack
Martin Quack (born July 22, 1948 in Darmstadt ) is a German chemist ( physical chemistry ). He is a professor at the ETH Zurich .
life and work
Quack studied chemistry from 1966 at the TH Darmstadt with the preliminary diploma in 1969, was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service at the University of Grenoble and then at the University of Göttingen , where he received his diploma in 1971. From 1972 he was at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne , where he received his doctorate in 1975 under Jürgen Troe . In 1973 he was at a summer school for quantum chemistry with Per-Olov Löwdin in Uppsala and in 1976/77 as a post-doctoral student with William H. Miller in Berkeley. He then went to Göttingen, where he completed his habilitation in 1978, and in 1982 he became a professor at the University of Bonn . Since 1983 he has been a full professor of physical chemistry at the ETH Zurich, where he headed the laboratory for physical chemistry in 1986/87, 1991/92 and 2006/07.
In 2005 he was Miller Visiting Professor at Berkeley. In 2011/12 he was chairman of the Bunsen Society .
His group investigates the quantum mechanical kinetics of molecules both theoretically and experimentally (using high-resolution infrared spectroscopy, multiphoton excitation and time-resolved spectroscopy). They investigated the dynamics of tunneling processes and violation of parity symmetry (due to the weak interaction in the Standard Model ) in chiral molecules. In particular, he showed that the expected effect from parity violation was one to two orders of magnitude larger than previously assumed and can in principle be detected by precision measurements in molecular physics on enantiomers .
Honors and memberships
- 1984 Klung Wilhelmy Weberbank Prize from the Free University of Berlin
- 1987 Bourke Lecturer at the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1988 Hinshelwood Lecturer and Christensen Fellow, Oxford
- 1991 Otto Bayer Prize
- 2002 Paracelsus Prize , Swiss Chemical Society
- 2006 Erwin Schrödinger Gold Medal, Innsbruck
- 2009 honorary doctorate from the University of Göttingen
- 2012 August Wilhelm von Hofmann memorial coin
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1990), a member of the Leopoldina (1998), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (1999), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017) and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .
From 2002 to 2011 he was a member of the Swiss National Research Council.
Fonts
- Detailed symmetry selection rules for reactive collisions, Molecular Physics, Volume 34, 1977, 477-504
- with J. Troe: Current aspects of unimolecular reactions, Internat. Reviews in Physical Chemistry, Vol. 1, 1981, pp. 97-147
- with DW Lupo: IR-laser photochemistry, Chem. Rev., Volume 87, 1987, pp. 181-216
- Structure and dynamics of chiral molecules, Angewandte Chemie, Volume 101, 1989, pp. 588-604
- Infrared laser chemistry and the dynamics of molecular multiphoton excitation, Infrared Physics, Volume 29, 1989, pp. 441-466
- Spectra and dynamics of coupled vibrations in polyatomic molecules, Annual Review Phys. Chem., Vol. 41, 1990, pp. 839-874
- Molecular quantum dynamics from high resolution spectroscopy and laser chemistry, J. Mol. Struct., Vol. 292, 1993, pp. 171-195
- Infrared laser chemistry, Infrared Phys. Technol., Vol. 36, 1995, pp. 365-380
- Molecular infrared spectra and molecular motion, J. Mol. Struct., Vol. 347, 1995, pp. 245-266
- with A. Bakasov, TK Ha: Ab initio calculation of molecular energies including parity violating interactions, J. Chem. Phys., Volume 109, 1998, pp. 7263-7285 (Erratum J. Chem. Phys. 110, 1999, p. 6081)
- Intramolecular dynamics: irreversibility, time-reversal symmetry and an absolute molecular clock, Nova Acta Leopoldina, 81, 1999, 137–173
- with Jürgen Stohner: Influence of parity violating weak nuclear potentials on vibrational and rotational frequencies in chiral molecules, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 84, 2000, pp. 3807-3810
- How important is parity violation for molecular and biomolecular chirality?, Angewandte Chemie, Volume 41, 2002, pp. 4618-4630
- Molecular spectra, reaction dynamics, symmetries and life, Chimica, Vol. 57, 2003, pp. 147-160
- with J. Stohner: Parity violation in chiral molecules, Chimia, Volume 59, 2005, pp. 530-538
- with J. Stohner, M. Willeke: High-resolution spectroscopic studies and theory of parity violation in chiral molecules, Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem., Vol. 59, 2008, pp. 741-769
- Editor with Frédéric Merkt: Handbook of High Resolution Spectroscopy, 3 volumes, Wiley 2011
- therein by Quack: Fundamental symmetries and symmetry violations from high resolution spectroscopy, Volume 1, Chapter 18
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| SURNAME | Quack, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |