Paul Brumer

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Paul William Brumer (born June 8, 1945 in Brooklyn ) is a Canadian theoretical chemist .

Life

Brumer was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York . He studied chemistry at Brooklyn College with a bachelor's degree in 1966. In 1972 he received his doctorate from Harvard University under the later Nobel Prize winner Martin Karplus with the thesis Structure and Collision Complex Dynamics of Alkali Halide Dimers in the field of theoretical physical chemistry . As a postdoctoral fellow he worked with Raphael Levine and Alexander Dalgarno at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, where he gave lectures on astronomy. In 1975 he moved to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto , where he has been working ever since.

In his early scientific work, Brumer dealt with different aspects of the classical and quantum mechanical description of the dynamics of chemical reactions. With the increasing use of methods of nonlinear dynamics and especially chaos theory in physics at the beginning of the 1970s, he recognized the possibilities of these concepts for theoretical chemistry at an early stage . In addition to the link between classic chaotic dynamics and statistical behavior in chemical reactions, he investigated the occurrence of quantum chaos in such reactions using theoretical methods . He published his best-known and most cited work with Moshe Shapiro and co-workers on the theory of controlling chemical reactions with lasers, also known as quantum control of chemical reactions. This is about the control of chemical reactions with coherent light with the aim of maximum reaction yield.

In 1977, Brumer received a Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation . In 1993 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1994. Among other awards, he received the prestigious Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize in 2000.

Fonts (selection)

  • P. Brumer, M. Karplus: Perturbation theory and ionic models for alkali halide systems. I diatomics . In: Journal of Chemical Physics . tape 58 , no. 9 , 1973, p. 3903-3918 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.1679747 .
  • Charles Jaffé, P. Brumer: Local and normal modes: A classical perspective . In: Journal of Chemical Physics . tape 73 , no. 11 , 1980, pp. 5646-5658 .
  • P. Brumer, M. Shapiro: Control of unimolecular reactions using coherent light . In: Chemical Physics Letters . tape 126 , no. 6 , 1986, pp. 541-546 , doi : 10.1016 / S0009-2614 (86) 80171-3 .
  • M. Shapiro, P. Brumer: Laser control of product quantum state populations in unimolecular reactions . In: Journal of Chemical Physics . tape 84 , no. 7 , 1986, pp. 4103 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.450074 .
  • P. Brumer, M. Shapiro: Laser control of molecular processes . In: Annual Review of Physical Chemistry . tape 43 , 1992, pp. 257-282 , doi : 10.1146 / annurev.pc.43.100192.001353 .
  • M. Shapiro, P. Brumer: Coherent control of molecular dynamics . In: Reports on Progress in Physics . tape 66 , no. 6 , 2003, p. 859-942 .
  • P. Brumer, M. Shapiro: Molecular response in one-photon absorption via natural thermal light vs. Pulsed laser excitation . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . tape 109 , no. 48 , 2012, p. 19575-19578 .
  • Moshe Shapiro, Paul Brumer: Principles of the Quantum Control of Molecular Processes . John Wiley, Hoboken 2003, ISBN 0-471-24184-9 .

literature

  • Dvira Segal: A tribute to Paul Brumer . In: Canadian Journal of Chemistry . tape 92 , no. 2 , 2014, doi : 10.1139 / cjc-2014-0010 .
  • Paul Brumer, Moshe Shapiro: Controlling chemical reactions with lasers . In: Spectrum of Science . No. 5 , 1995, p. 70 ( online [accessed July 19, 2019]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed July 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ ONR-funded researcher wins Canada's highest academic honor. eurekalert.com, accessed on July 19, 2019 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Brumer, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brumer, Paul William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian theoretical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn