Peter J. Rossky

Peter Jacob Rossky (* 1950 ) is an American chemist who works in the field of theoretical chemistry .

Life

Rossky studied chemistry at Cornell University and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University with a thesis in theoretical physical chemistry . Between 1976 and 1980 he published several articles with the later Nobel laureate Martin Karplus on the application of perturbative methods in atomic and molecular physics as well as the calculation of thermodynamic properties of aqueous solutions with molecular dynamics simulations . After completing his PhD, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the State University of New York at Stony Brook . In 1979 he became Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and in 1987 Full Professor. There he was later director of two large research centers. In 2014 he followed a call to Rice University , where he has been dean of the Wiess School of Natural Science s since August 2014 and holds a chair in chemistry.

Rossky made significant contributions to the understanding of the structure and dynamics of chemical transformations in amorphous condensed systems ( liquids , polymers , molecular clusters ). He is particularly interested in investigating the role of liquids (and especially water) in chemistry using computer simulation methods, as well as investigating the temporal behavior of excited states in molecular systems. So far he has published around 300 scientific articles.

In 1982 he became a Sloan Research Fellow and in 1994 a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2011 . Among other awards, he received the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids from the American Chemical Society in 2010 and the Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2018 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids. American Chemical Society, accessed April 12, 2016 . 

Web links

• Entry at the Wiess School of Natural Sciences at Rice University
• Entry by Peter J. Rossky in the membership directory of the National Academy of Sciences
• Life data, publications and academic family tree of Peter J. Rossky at academictree.org, accessed on April 22, 2018.