Robert W. Field
Robert Warren Field (born June 13, 1944 in Wilmington , Delaware ) is an American chemist who deals with laser spectroscopy and molecular physics.
Field studied chemistry at Amherst College with a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1965 and at Harvard University , where he received his master's degree in 1971 and in the same year with William A. Klemperer on the subject of spectroscopy and perturbation analysis in excited states of CO and CS doctorate was. As a post-doctoral student , he was at the University of California, Santa Barbara , from 1971 to 1974 , with Herbert P. Broida and DO Harris. In 1974 he became an Assistant Professor , 1978 Associate Professor and 1982 Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Since 1999 he has been Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry there.
He developed new laser spectroscopic methods such as Stimulated Emission Pumping (SEP). By applying it to highly excited vibrational states of polyatomic molecules, he and James L. Kinsey and Robert J. Silbey found the first indications of quantum chaos in isolated single molecules. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1981), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002), the Optical Society of America (1994), the Royal Society of Chemistry (2009 ) and member of the National Academy of Sciences .
In 1980 he received the Herbert P. Broida Prize, the Earle K. Plyler Prize in 1988, the Ellis Lippincott Award in 1990, the William F. Meggers Award in 1996 and the Bomem-Michelson Award in 2006. In 2011 he received a Humboldt Research Award . From 1975 to 1977 he was a Sloan Fellow .
In 2009 he received the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize for Laser Physics for pioneering work on the development and application of laser spectroscopy with multiple resonances and effective model Hamilton operators, the basic mechanisms of breaking chemical bonds, rearrangement of electrons in molecules, redistribution of intramolecular vibrations and unimolecular ones isomerization revealed .
Fonts
- with Hélène Lefebvre-Brion: Perturbations in the Spectra of Diatomic Molecules, Academic Press 1986
- with Hélène Lefebvre-Brion: The Spectra and Dynamics of Diatomic Molecules, Elsevier 2004
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Robert W. Field at academictree.org, accessed on February 6, 2018th
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Field, Robert W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Field, Robert Warren |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilmington , Delaware |