Richard N. Zare

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Richard N. Zare

Richard N. Zare (born November 19, 1939 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American professor of chemistry at Stanford University .

Life

He received his BA in chemistry and physics from Harvard University in 1961 , where he received his PhD in physical chemistry in 1964. In 1965 he became an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was from 1966 at the University of Colorado . In 1967 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1969 he became professor of chemistry at Columbia University , from 1975 as Higgins Professor of Natural Science . From 1977 he was a professor at Stanford University , where he headed the chemistry faculty in 2005. In 2006 he became Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor (HHMI) and Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor there.

He is best known for his research on laser chemistry, which has led to a better understanding of chemical reactions at the molecular level and enables laser control of reactions. Zare is the author of a book on angular momentum in quantum mechanics and also co-author of a publication on the controversial hypothesis of life on Mars from the analysis of the meteorite ALH 84001 .

Zare is a member of the Royal Society of London (1999), the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (both 1976), the American Philosophical Society (1991), the Swedish Academy of Engineering , the Chinese Academy of Sciences as well Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1985). He has won the Fresenius Prize (1974), the Michael Polanyi Medal (1979), the National Medal of Science (1983), the Welch Award in Chemistry (1999), the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2005), the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2009), the Priestley Medal (2010) and the King Faisal Prize (2011). In 2012 he received the Torbern Bergman Medal from the Swedish Chemical Society .

He is the author and co-author of over 800 publications, holds 50 patents and has ten honorary doctorates (2010).

Publications (selection)

  • Angular momentum - understanding spatial aspects in chemistry and physics , Wiley 1988
  • Laser experiments for beginners , Sausolito, University Science Books 1995
  • Hadamard Transform Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry: More Signal, More of the Time , FM Fernández, JR Kimmel, and RN Zare, Angewandte Chemie, 42, 30-35 (2003).
  • Chemical Cytometry on a Picoliter-Scale Integrated Microfluidic Chip , H. Wu, AR Wheeler and RN Zare, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 101, 12809-12813 (2004).
  • Laser Control of Chemical Reactions , RN Zare, Science, 279, 1875-1879 (1998).
  • Anatomy of Elementary Chemical Reactions , AJ Alexander and RN Zare, J. Chem. Ed., 75, 1105-1118 (1998).
  • Observation and Interpretation of a Time-Delayed Mechanism in the Hydrogen Exchange Reaction , SC Althorpe, F. Fernández-Alonso, BD Bean, JD Ayers, AE Pomerantz, RN Zare, and E. Wrede, Nature 416, 67–70 (2002) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lista mottagare. Svenska Kemisamfundet, accessed on September 7, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Zare, Richard N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist, Professor of Science at Harvard University
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio