Paul Davidovits
Paul Davidovits (born November 1, 1935 in Moldava , Czechoslovakia ) is an American chemist and physicist ( physical chemistry , optics).
Life
Davidovis studied at Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in 1960, a master's degree in 1961 and a doctorate in applied physics in 1964. He was until 1965 at the Radiation Laboratory of Columbia University and then Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at Yale University . Since 1975 he has been Professor of Chemistry at Boston College .
Around 1969 he and David Egger developed the confocal laser microscope at Yale (see confocal microscope ). The confocal microscope was first designed by Marvin Minsky but has been independently reinvented several times. They also used the microscope in biology.
He is a consultant to Aerodyne in Billerica (Massachusetts), with whom he researched the basic physico-chemical properties of the gas-liquid interaction in various substances for over 20 years, the question of how gas molecules penetrate the liquid and react at the gas-liquid boundary . This provided important information for droplet and aerosol chemistry in the atmosphere. He and his group also studied the chemical and optical properties of atmospheric aerosols, such as those in exhaust smoke bells. To do this, he is developing an aerosol mass spectrometer at Aerodyne.
He also dealt with laser physics and atomic collisions and recombinations.
In 2000 he received the RW Wood Prize with Minsky and Egger for contributions to confocal microscopy. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Chemical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
He has been married since 1957 and has two children.
Fonts
- Physics in Biology and Medicine , Prentice-Hall 1975, 3rd edition, Elsevier 2008
- with MD Egger: Scanning laser microscope , Nature, Volume 223, 1969, 831
- with MD Egger: Scanning laser microscope for biological investigations , Applied optics, Volume 10, 1971, pp. 1615-1619.
- Editor with DL McFadden: Alkali Halide Vapors: Structure, spectra, and reaction dynamics , Academic Press 1979
- Rajan K. Chakrabarty, Hans Moosmüller, W. Patrick Arnott, Mark A. Garro, Guoxun Tian, Jay G. Slowik, Eben S. Cross, Jeong-Ho Han, Paul Davidovits, Timothy B. Onasch, Douglas R. Worsnop: Low fractal dimension cluster-dilute soot aggregates from a premixed flame , Phys. Rev. Letters, Volume 102, 2009, p. 235504
- Daniel A. Lack, Chris D. Cappa, Eben S. Cross, Paola Massoli, Adam T. Ahern, Paul Davidovits, Timothy B. Onasch: Absorption Enhancement of Coated Absorbing Aerosols: Validation of the Photo-Acoustic Technique for Measuring the Enhancement , Aerosol Science and Technology, Volume 43, 2009, pp. 10006-1012.
- Eben S. Cross, Timothy B. Onasch, Manjula Canagaratna, John T. Jayne, Joel Kimmel, Xiao-Ying Yu, M. Lizabeth Alexander, Douglas R. Worsnop, Paul Davidovits: Single Particle Characterization Using a Light Scattering Module Coupled to a Time-of Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer , Atmospheric Chem. And Phys., Volume 9, 2009, pp. 7769-7793.
Web links
- Homepage ( Memento from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Paul Davidovits at academictree.org, accessed on 29 January 2018th
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Davidovits, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moldava |