RJ Dwayne Miller

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RJ Dwayne Miller

RJ Dwayne Miller FRSC (born 1956 ) is a Canadian chemist . He is director at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter .

Life

RJ Dwayne Miller studied at the University of Manitoba from 1974 , where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1978 . In the same year he moved to Stanford University , where he worked with Michael D. Fayer in 1983 with the work Part I, Electronic excited state transport and trapping in disordered systems; Part II, laser induced ultrasonics doctorate . He then spent a research stay in 1983 and 1984 as a NATO Science Fellow at the University of Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France .

After his return to North America, he took a position at the University of Rochester in 1984 , where he was initially assistant professor , from 1988 associate professor and from 1992 full professor of chemistry and optics.

In 1995 Miller moved to the University of Toronto , where he has since held a professorship in chemistry and physics; in 2007 he received the status of a University Professor in Toronto . From 2005 to 2010 he was director of the Institute for Optical Sciences at the university.

On January 1, 2014, in addition to his position in Toronto, Miller became one of the founding directors of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg . There he heads the department “Dynamics in Atomic Resolution”.

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The focus of Miller's research concerns the development of techniques of ultra-short time spectroscopy using fast pulsed lasers with the aim of describing physical and chemical processes on the atomic level, in particular of processes of importance in biology .

One of Miller's main achievements in this area was the development of suitable electron sources that made it possible to track atomic movements with sufficient resolution in place and time in order to study the initial processes relevant to structural changes. Miller also made significant contributions in quantum control .

Miller is also committed to teaching science in school lessons. In particular, he founded the Science Rendezvous series of events in Canada, which was attended by 15,000 people in 2008, the year it was founded, and which now has over 100,000 participants nationwide.

honors and awards

In 1997 the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) awarded him the Rutherford Memorial Medal for excellence in chemistry. In 1999 the RSC made him a fellow . In 2011, the Miller Society awarded the McNeil Medal for services to public awareness of science .

The Canadian Society for Chemistry honored him in 2000 with the John C. Polanyi Award , a prize for excellent research in physical or theoretical chemistry in Canada.

In 2009 he received the CIC Medal , the Chemical Institute of Canada's highest award .

In 2015 he was the recipient of the E. Bright Wilson Award, presented by the American Chemical Society (ACS) . The US $ 5,000 prize is awarded by the ACS Physical Chemistry Department for “excellence in basic or applied spectroscopy in chemistry ”.

In 2016 Miller received the Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry , and in 2017 an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo .

Publications (selection)

  • Bradley J. Siwick, Jason R. Dwyer, Robert E. Jordan, RJ Dwayne Miller: An Atomic-Level View of Melting Using Femtosecond Electron Diffraction . In: Science . tape 302 , no. 5649 , November 21, 2003, p. 1382-1385 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1090052 .
  • ML Cowan, BD Bruner, N. Huse, JR Dwyer, B. Chugh, ETJ Nibbering, T. Elsaesser, RJD Miller: Ultrafast memory loss and energy redistribution in the hydrogen bond network of liquid H2O . In: Nature . tape 434 , no. 7030 , March 10, 2005, p. 199–202 , doi : 10.1038 / nature03383 .
  • Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Andrea M. Nagy, Stephen A. Waschuk, Leonid S. Brown, Robert R. Birge, RJ Dwayne Miller: Coherent Control of Retinal Isomerization in Bacteriorhodopsin . In: Science . tape 313 , no. 5791 , September 1, 2006, p. 1257-1261 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1130747 .
  • Germán Sciaini, Maher Harb, Sergei G. Kruglik, Thomas Payer, Christoph T. Hebeisen, Frank-J. Meyer zu Heringdorf, Mariko Yamaguchi, Michael Horn-von Hoegen, Ralph Ernstorfer, RJ Dwayne Miller: Electronic acceleration of atomic motions and disordering in bismuth . In: Nature . tape 458 , January 13, 2009, p. 56-59 , doi : 10.1038 / nature07788 .
  • Ralph Ernstorfer, Maher Harb, Christoph T. Hebeisen, Germán Sciaini, Thibault Dartigalongue, RJ Dwayne Miller: The formation of warm dense matter: Experimental evidence for electronic bond hardening in gold . In: Science . tape 323 , no. 5917 , February 20, 2009, p. 1033-1037 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1162697 .
  • Hubert Jean-Ruel, Meng Gao, Michal A. Kochman, Cheng Lu, Lai Chung Liu, Ryan R. Cooney, Carole A. Morrison, RJ Dwayne Miller: Ring-Closing Reaction in Diarylethene Captured by Femtosecond Electron Crystallography . In: Journal of Physical Chemistry B . tape 117 , no. 49 , December 12, 2013, p. 15894-15902 , doi : 10.1021 / jp409245h .
  • Meng Gao, Cheng Lu, Hubert Jean-Ruel, Lai Chung Liu, Alexander Marx, Ken Onda, Shin-ya Koshihara, Yoshiaki Nakano, Xiangfeng Shao, Takaaki Hiramatsu, Gunzi Saito, Hideki Yamochi, Ryan R. Cooney, Gustavo Moriena, Germán Sciaini, RJ Dwayne Miller: Mapping molecular motions leading to charge delocalization with ultrabright electrons . In: Nature . tape 496 , no. 7445 , April 17, 2013, p. 343–346 , doi : 10.1038 / nature12044 .
  • RJ Dwayne Miller: Mapping atomic motions with ultrabright electrons: The chemists' gedanken experiment enters the lab frame . In: Annual Review of Physical Chemistry . tape 65 , April 1, 2014, p. 583-604 , doi : 10.1146 / annurev-physchem-040412-110117 .
  • Philip JM Johnson, Alexei Halpin, Takefumi Morizumi, Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Oliver P. Ernst, RJ Dwayne Miller: Local vibrational coherences drive the primary photochemistry of vision . In: Nature Chemistry . tape 7 , no. 12 , October 15, 2015, p. 980-986 , doi : 10.1038 / nchem.2398 .
  • Ryan L. Field, Lai Chung Liu, Wojciech Gawelda, Cheng Lu, RJ Dwayne Miller: Spectral signatures of ultrafast spin crossover in single crystal [Fe II (bpy) 3 ] (PF 6 ) 2 . In: Chemistry - A European Journal . tape 22 , no. 15 , February 25, 2016, p. 5118-5122 , doi : 10.1002 / chem.201600374 .
  • Rui Xian, Gastón Corthey, David M. Rogers, Carole A. Morrison, Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Stuart A. Hayes, RJ Dwayne Miller: Coherent ultrafast lattice-directed reaction dynamics of triiodide anion photodissociation . In: Nature Chemistry . tape 9 , no. 15 , February 13, 2017, p. 516-522 , doi : 10.1038 / nchem.2751 .
  • Lai Chung Liu, Yifeng Jiang, Henrike Müller-Werkmeister, Cheng Lu, Gustavo Moriena, Manabu Ishikawa, Yoshiaki Nakano, Hideki Yamochi, RJ Dwayne Miller: Ultrafast electron diffraction study of single-crystal (EDO-TTF) 2 SbF 6 : Counterion effect and dimensionality reduction . In: Chemical Physics Letters . tape 683 , May 2, 2017, p. 160–165 , doi : 10.1016 / j.cplett.2017.05.007 .
  • Yifeng Jiang, Lai Chung Liu, Henrike Müller-Werkmeister, Cheng Lu, Dongfang Zhang, Ryan L. Field, Antoine Sarracini, Gustavo Moriena, Eric Collet, RJ Dwayne Miller: Structural dynamics upon photoexcitation in a spin crossover crystal probed with femtosecond electron diffraction . In: Angewandte Chemie . tape 56 , no. 25 , May 16, 2017, p. 7130–7134 , doi : 10.1002 / anie.201702497 .
  • Anatoly A. Ischenko, Peter M. Weber, RJ Dwayne Miller: Capturing chemistry in action with electrons: Realization of atomically resolved reaction dynamics . In: Chemical Reviews . tape 117 , no. 16 , June 7, 2017, p. 11066–11124 , doi : 10.1021 / acs.chemrev.6b00770 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of RJ Dwayne Miller at academictree.org, accessed on January 3 of 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Prof. Dr. RJ Dwayne Miller. Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, accessed on May 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Profile of the institute. Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, accessed on July 29, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Department of Dynamics in Atomic Resolution. Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter , accessed on July 29, 2015 .
  5. ↑ RSC Medals & Awards. Royal Society of Canada , accessed July 31, 2015 (description of all RSC awards).
  6. ^ Past Award Winners. Royal Society of Canada, accessed May 8, 2019 (list of winners of all RSC awards).
  7. ^ Search Fellows. Royal Society of Canada, accessed July 31, 2015 .
  8. ↑ CSC Awards Handbook. (PDF) Chemical Society of Canada , p. 17 , accessed on July 31, 2015 .
  9. ^ CIC Medal. Chemical Institute of Canada, accessed July 31, 2015 .
  10. ↑ CIC Awards Handbook. (PDF) Chemical Institute of Canada, p. 10 , accessed on July 31, 2015 .
  11. ↑ 2015 ACS National Award Winners from the Physical Chemistry Division. The Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society , July 19, 2015, accessed on July 31, 2015 : "Purpose: To recognize outstanding accomplishments in fundamental or applied spectroscopy in chemistry"
  12. ^ E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy. American Chemical Society , accessed July 31, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Jenny Witt: Honorary doctorate for Max Planck Director Prof. RJ Dwayne Miller. Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, press release from November 15, 2017 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on November 15, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Miller, RJ Dwayne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian chemist and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
DATE OF BIRTH 1956