Robin Hochstrasser

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Robin M. Hochstrasser (born January 4, 1931 in Edinburgh - † February 27, 2013 ) was a Scottish-American physical chemist.

Hochstrasser studied chemistry at Heriot-Watt University with a bachelor's degree in 1952 and a doctorate in 1955 at the University of Edinburgh under Mowbray Ritchie with the thesis Photoformation of peroxides of rubrene and related compounds (1984 he also received a D.Sc. from Heriot -Watt University). He then did military service with the Royal Air Force for two years, where he trained navigators in electronics. In 1957 he became an instructor and in 1960 an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia . In 1963 he became an associate professor and in 1971 professor at the University of Pennsylvania . From 1983 he was Donner professor there.

He dealt with molecular spectroscopy and introduced two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy in the 1990s. He also used this in medicine (studying AIDS, Alzheimer's, flu). He has made over 500 publications.

In 1997 he received the Peter Debye Award , 1981 the Bourke Medal of the Faraday Society, 2012 the Linus Pauling Award, 2007 the AH Zewail Award, the Lippincott Award of the Optical Society of America, the E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy, and in 2000 the Centenary Silver Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003 the Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) and 1978 the Humboldt Research Prize (and was with this at the University of Munich). He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . From 1963 to 1967 he was a Sloan Research Fellow and 1971/72 Guggenheim Fellow. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America . He was visiting professor at Cambridge, Oxford, Grenoble, Paris, the University of Strathclyde and the Australian National University . Hochstrasser is an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh.

From 1975 to 2012 he was editor of Chemical Physics.

Ahmed Zewail is one of his PhD students .

Fonts

  • Behavior of Electrons in Atoms , Benjamin 1964
  • Molecular Aspects of Symmetry , Benjamin 1966
  • As co-author: Spectroscopy and excitation dynamics of condensed molecular systems , Amsterdam / New York: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1983.
  • Robin M. Hochstrasser Festschrift , Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Robin M. Hochstrasser at academictree.org, accessed on February 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Hochstrasser, Robin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hochstrasser, Robin M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2013