Veronica Vaida

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Veronica Vaida (born August 3, 1950 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian - American chemist at the University of Colorado Boulder .

Live and act

Veronica Vaida is the daughter of Vasile Vaida , a Romanian politician, and his second wife, Elza Katz, an Auschwitz survivor . Veronica Vaida grew up in Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest. She studied chemistry at the University of Bucharest until 1969 , where she received a scholarship to study in the USA. In 1973 she earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University . 1977 doctorate ( Ph.D. ) them with the work Weak Electronic States in Molecules and Molecular Crystals at Steven D. Colson at the Yale University . As a postdoc , she worked with the later Nobel Prize winner Dudley R. Herschbach and with Bill Reinhart at Harvard University .

1979 Vaida received a first professorship at Harvard University ( Assistant Professor , then Associate Professor ). She has been with the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder since 1984 , where she received a full professorship in 1990. Since 2000 she has also been working for the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) there.

Vaida is known for her fundamental contributions to the understanding of the process of photodissociation of excited states and for the application of this knowledge to processes in the earth's atmosphere and in the atmosphere of various planets. Vaida's other important work deals with the composition of atmospheric aerosols and the spontaneous formation of protein bonds at air-water boundaries, which has implications for the origin of life on earth.

Russell J. Hemley is one of her students . According to Google Scholar, Vaida has an h-index of 59, according to the Scopus database it has an h-index of 50 (as of July 2020).

Veronica Vaida was married to Kevin Peters, a chemist, from 1978 to 1990; the couple had two children. She has been married to Adrian Tuck, a chemist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) , since 1997 .

Awards (selection)

literature

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry virtual special issue “Veronica Vaida Festschrift”, 2018.
    • D. James Donaldson, Joseph S. Francisco, Vicki H. Grassian, Russell J. Hemley, David M. Jonas, Kenneth R. Leopold, Nancy E. Levinger: Tribute to Veronica Vaida. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 122, 2018, p. 1157, doi : 10.1021 / acs.jpca.7b11829 .
    • Veronica Vaida: Autobiographical Notes. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 122, 2018, p. 1159, doi : 10.1021 / acs.jpca.7b12802 .
    • Veronica Vaida: Curriculum Vita of Veronica Vaida. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 122, 2018, p. 1167, doi: 10.1021 / acs.jpca.7b12019 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Egon Balas : The Will to Freedom: A Dangerous Journey through Fascism and Communism . Springer-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-23921-2 , p. 199 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ a b APS Fellow Archive (V). In: aps.org. American Physical Society , accessed July 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Veronica Vaida. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar Citations, accessed July 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Vaida, Veronica. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed July 4, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Veronica Vaida. In: gf.org. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, accessed July 4, 2020 .
  6. ^ E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy. In: acs.org. American Chemical Society , accessed July 4, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter V. (PDF; 234 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved July 4, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Veronica Vaida. In: amacad.org. American Academy of Arts and Sciences , February 2015, accessed July 4, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Veronica Vaida. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed July 4, 2020 .
  10. ^ Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics. In: acs.org. American Chemical Society , accessed July 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Vaida, Veronica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest