William A. Klemperer
William Aloys Klemperer (born October 6, 1927 in New York City - † November 5, 2017 ) was an American chemist .
Life
Klemperer attended New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle and in 1944 - on his 17th birthday - was a soldier in the United States Navy Air Corps. After World War II , he enrolled at Harvard College in 1946 , where he earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1950 . In 1954, Klemperer earned a Ph.D. from George C. Pimentel at the University of California, Berkeley. in physical chemistry . He then went back as a lecturer at Harvard University , where he rose rapidly and was given a full professorship in 1965. Klemperer stayed at Harvard - only interrupted by a sabbatical year 1968/1969 in Cambridge , England (inter alia with Dennis Sciama ), a position as deputy director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC (1979-1981) and one Sabbath semester at the University of California, Berkeley (1998) - until his retirement in 2002.
Klemperer had been married to Elizabeth Cole since 1949 and the couple had three children.
Act
Klemperer dealt with molecular structures , energy transfer and intermolecular forces , in particular using spectroscopic methods. He carried out fundamental work on models of molecule formation and detection within interstellar matter and is considered a pioneer of cosmochemistry .
Awards (selection)
- 1958 Sloan Research Fellow
- 1963 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1969 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1980 Irving Langmuir Award
- 1994 Peter Debye Award
- 1995 Faraday Lecture and Prize
- 1996 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Chicago
- Honorary Citizen of Toulouse
Web links
- William Klemperer and working group at Harvard University (harvard.edu)
- Page no longer available , search in web archives: Autobiographical Notes (PDF, 56 kB, pp. 4–5) at the Pinhead Institute (pinheadinstitute.org), a facility of the Smithsonian Institution
Individual evidence
- ↑ William Klemperer. National Academy of Sciences , accessed November 11, 2017 .
- ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of William Klemperer at academictree.org, accessed on February 24, 2018.
- ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed June 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present (PDF, 445 kB) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); Retrieved May 8, 2013
- ↑ William Klemperer. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved March 26, 2018 .
- ^ Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics - American Chemical Society. In: acs.org. Accessed March 26, 2018 .
- ^ Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry - American Chemical Society. In: acs.org. Accessed March 26, 2018 .
- ^ Faraday Lectureship Prize - Previous winners at the Royal Society of Chemistry (rsc.org); Retrieved May 8, 2013
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SURNAME | Klemperer, William A. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klemperer, William Aloys (full name); Klemperer, William; Klemperer, Bill |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1927 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
DATE OF DEATH | 5th November 2017 |