Stephen R. Leone

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Stephen Robert Leone (born May 19, 1948 in New York City ) is an American physical chemist.

Leone studied chemistry at Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in 1970 and was at the 1974 University of California, Berkeley , in physical chemistry at C. Bradley Moore with the work Tunable-laser, state-selected photochemistry and energy transfer doctorate . 1974 to 1976 he was assistant professor at the University of Southern California and from 1976 research physicist and professor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In 1978 he became a Fellow of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) in Boulder and in 1986 a Fellow of NIST. From 1982 he was Adjunt Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder . In 2002 he became Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the director of the Chemical Dynamics Beamline at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory .

He deals with laser spectroscopy for the clarification of the femto- and attosecond dynamics of molecules (and chemical reactions) and solids (metals, semiconductors).

In 2005 he received the Peter Debye Award and in 2011 the Irving Langmuir Award . In 1984 he received the Coblentz Award in Spectroscopy, 1989 the Herbert P. Broida Prize of the American Physical Society, 1992 the Samuel Wesley Stratton Award of the NIST, 1982 the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry , and in 2010 the Polanyi Medal of the Gas Kinetics Section from the Royal Society of Chemistry and in 1994 the Bourke Medal from the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences (1995) and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In 1988 he became a Guggenheim Fellow and in 1977 a Sloan Research Fellow .

In 1990 he was Miller Visiting Professor at Berkeley and he was Visiting Professor in Taiwan. In 2009 he was Belkin Visiting Professor at the Weizmann Institute .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Stephen R. Leone at academictree.org, accessed on 7 March 2018th
  3. ^ Book of Members. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Leone, Stephen R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leone, Stephen Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City