Stuart A. Rice

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Stuart Alan Rice (born January 6, 1932 in New York City ) is an American theoretical chemist and physical chemist .

Stuart A. Rice studied at Brooklyn College (SB 1952) and at Harvard University (AM 1954), where he received his doctorate in 1955 under Paul Doty . As a post-doctoral student , he was a junior fellow at Harvard. He has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 1957 , most recently as Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor .

He was visiting scholar at Caltech ( Fairchild Scholar 1979) and 1999/2000 at Oxford University ( Newton-Abraham Professor ).

Rice combines theory and experiment in his work. In the 1950s, he dealt with the transport properties of liquids, for example the properties of liquid noble gases and liquid methane. He did research in the field of excitons in molecular crystals and radiationless electronic transitions in molecules, quantum chaos in excited molecules and control of chaos with laser excitation. Furthermore, he dealt with liquid metals, their electronic band structure and interface properties.

More recently, he has dealt with the theory of active control of quantum dynamic processes with the aim of influencing chemical reactions by optimizing time-dependent fields. He also deals with the physical chemistry of interfaces such as liquid-solid or liquid-gas.

He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society, and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences . In 2002 he was elected an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy . He received the A. Cressy Morrison Prize of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1955 , the Medal of the Free University of Brussels in 1966, the Marlow Medal of the Faraday Society in 1963 , the Centennial Award at Harvard in 1997, the National Medal of Science in 1999 , and the Hirschfelder Medal in 2002 for theoretical chemistry, 1985 the Peter Debye Award , 1987 the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award of the American Chemical Society , whose prize for pure chemistry he received in 1962, and 2011 the Wolf Prize in chemistry.

He had over 100 PhD students.

He was a Sloan Research Fellow from 1958 to 1962 and a Guggenheim Fellow from 1960 to 1961 .

He is the editor of Advances in Chemical Physics .

Fonts

  • with Mitsuro Nagasawa Polyelectrolyte solutions: a theoretical introduction , Academic Press 1961
  • with Peter Gray: The statistical mechanics of simple liquids: an introduction to the theory of equilibrium and non-equilibrium phenomena, Interscience 1965
  • The kinetic theory of dense fluids, Mobil Oil Corp. Research Department 1966 (lectures)
  • Editor with Joshua Jortner , Raphael D. Levine Photoselective Chemistry , 2 volumes, Wiley 1981
  • Editor with Ilya Prigogine Evolution of Size Effects in chemical dynamics , Advances in Chemical Physics, Wiley 1988.
  • with Stephen Berry, John Ross Physical Chemistry , 2 volumes, Wiley 1980
  • with Stephen Berry, John Ross Physical and Chemical Kinetics , Oxford University Press 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Stuart Alan Rice. Royal Irish Academy, accessed May 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rice, Stuart A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rice, Stuart Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City