Matthew S. Johnson

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Matthew S. Johnson (born December 14, 1966 in Crookston , Minnesota , USA) is an American atmospheric physicist. He teaches as a professor at the Copenhagen Center for Atmospheric Research at the University of Copenhagen .

Johnson studied chemistry at SA Macalester College in St. Paul Minnesota until 1989 and received his PhD in physical chemistry at the California Institute of Technology Caltech on the spectroscopy of reactive molecules and cluster compounds in 1995 .

After various positions in Minnesota and at Caltech, he was a student of the Fulbright program at the MAX-Lab accelerator at Lund University in Sweden and became an assistant professor in Copenhagen in 1998 . In the field of kinetics, he coordinates the Nordic Network for Chemical Kinetics (NoNeCK) and has 82 publications in internationally referenced scientific journals.

Johnson is married with two children.

Publications (excerpt)

  • Y. Ueno, MS Johnson, SO Danielache, C. Eskebjerg, A. Pandey, N. Yoshida, Geological Sulfur Isotopes Indicate Elevated OCS in the Archean Atmosphere, Solving the Faint Young Sun Paradox, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in press , 2009.
  • SO Danielache, S. Nanbu, C. Eskebjerg, MS Johnson, N. Yoshida, Carbonyl Sulfide Isotopologues: Ultraviolet Absorption Cross Sections and Stratospheric Photolysis, Journal of Chemical Physics, 131, 024307, 2009.
  • EJK Nilsson, OJ Nielsen, MS Johnson, MD Hurley, TJ Wallington, Atmospheric Chemistry of cis-CF3CH = CHF: Products of OH Radical Initiated Oxidation and Kinetics of Reactions with Chlorine Atoms, OH Radicals, and O3, Chemical Physics Letter, 473, 233 - 237, doi : 10.1016 / j.cplett.2009.03.076 , 2009

Web links