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* 1974 – National Fresenius Award, Phi Lambda Upsilon * 1976 – Member, National Academy of Sciences * 1976 – Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences * 1979 – inaugural recipient of the Michael Polanyi Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry * 1981 – Earle K. Plyler Prize * 1983 – Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh Awar...
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James Franck (; 26 August 1882 – 21 May 1964) was a German physicist who won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom". He completed his doctorate in 1906 and his habilitation in 1911 at the Frederick William University in Berli...
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Raman had an aversion to the then Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru and Nehru's policies on science. In one instance he smashed the bust of Nehru on the floor. In another he shattered his Bharat Ratna medallion to pieces with a hammer, as it was given to him by the Nehru government. He publicly ridiculed Nehru w...
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In 1949, he returned to Harvard as a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows. In 1951, he became an associate professor; he then became Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics in 1957; Rumford Professor of Physics in 1974; and Gerhard Gade University Professor in 1980. In 1990 he retired from Harvard. In addition, Bl...
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Although Raman hardly talked about religion, he was openly an agnostic, but objected to being labelled atheist. His agnosticism was largely influenced by that of his father who adhered to the philosophies of Herbert Spencer, Charles Bradlaugh, and Robert G. Ingersoll. He resented Hindu traditional rituals but did not g...
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Michael Morris is an American biochemist, oceanographer and businessman, who has designed, developed and marketed new applications of optical sensing technology and spectroscopy. He has founded several companies including pHish Doctor (pH sensors for home aquariums), Ocean Optics Inc. (OOI) (miniature spectrometers), a...
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Martin A. Suhm (born 1962), is a German chemist and spectroscopist; he completed a Ph.D. thesis on the far infrared spectroscopy at ETH Zürich (group of Martin Quack) in 1990; he is a professor at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the University of Göttingen since 1997 who is active in the field of intermolecular ...
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William Duane (February 17, 1872 – March 7, 1935) was an American physicist who conducted research on radioactivity and X-rays and their usage in the treatment of cancer. He developed the Duane-Hunt Law and Duane's hypothesis. He worked with Pierre and Marie Curie in their University of Paris laboratory for six y...
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In May 1927, Rabi was appointed a Barnard Fellow. This came with a stipend of $1,500 ($ in dollars) for the period from September 1927 to June 1928. He immediately applied for a year's leave of absence from the City College of New York so he could study in Europe. When this was refused, he resigned. On reaching Zürich...
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* Khwarizmi International Award (1995) * Sitara-e-Imtiaz (1992) * Gold Medal, Pakistan Academy of Sciences (1990) * ICTP Award in Solid State Physics (1979) * ICTP Award in Nuclear Physics (1970)
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Dent spent the summer of 1924 at her parents home in Warminster, playing mixed doubles tennis in a tournament organised by the local Womens Unionist Association. In September of the same year, she was appointed an assistant teacher in mathematics at the High School for Girls, in Barnsley, Huddersfield Road, on an annua...
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He died in Stuttgart in 2014, where he lived since 1971 with his wife Inge Cardona (née Hecht). He held American, German and Spanish citizenship and had 3 children and 7 grandchildren.
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Donald has supervised many students and postdocs, many of whom are now professors in reputed universities such as MIT, Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Washington, Seattle, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Middlebury College and University of Toronto, and researchers at ...
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William Pendry Bidelman ( ; September 25, 1918 – May 3, 2011) was an American astronomer. Born in Los Angeles, and raised in North Dakota, he was noted for classifying the spectra of stars, and considered a pioneer in recognizing and classifying sub-groups of the peculiar stars. Bidelman's undergraduate degree was from...
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Outside of his professional life, Douglas Hartree was passionate about music, having an extensive knowledge of orchestral and chamber music. He played piano and was conductor of an amateur orchestra. This passion for music was perhaps what brought him together with his wife, Elaine Charlton, who was an accomplished pia...
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Honours *Elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1892. *Elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1895. *Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours list on 22 June 1897. *Huggins was among the origin...
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*"Structural Basis for the Activity of pp60 c src Protein Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors" Biopolymers, 59 167-179 (2001); N.V. Prabhu, S.A. Siddiqui, J.S. McMurray and B. M. Pettitt. *"A Study of DNA tethered to a Surface by an All-atom Molecular Dynamics Simulation" Theo. Chem. Accounts 106 233-235 (2001); Ka-Yiu Wong and...
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His major scientific achievements are: the discovery of the catalytic effect of fluoride ion; the discovery of the zwitterionic bicyclobutane; the formulation of the leading theory on the origin of the α-effect; the relationship between nucleophilicity and the Periodic Table; the discovery of a molecule forty times...
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Lyman became an assistant professor in physics at Harvard, where he remained, becoming full professor in 1917, and where he was also director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory (1908–17). He made important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discove...
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* Using Quantum Mechanical Approaches to Study Biological Systems; K. M. Merz, Jr. Acc. Chem. Res. 2014 47, 2804–2811. * Open-source multi-GPU-accelerated QM/MM simulations with AMBER and QUICK; V. Cruzeiro; M. Manathunga; K. M. Merz, Jr.; A. W. Götz J. Chem Inf. Model 2021, 61, 2109–2115. * A Second Generation Force F...
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Douglas Hartree was born in Cambridge, England. His father, William, was a lecturer in engineering at the University of Cambridge and his mother, Eva Rayner, was president of the National Council of Women of Great Britain and first woman to be mayor of the city of Cambridge. One of his great-grandfathers was Samuel Smi...
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After graduating and receiving her PhD, Thorne undertook a year-long research fellowship at Harvard University, where she worked with Professor Norman Ramsey. In 1955, Thorne joined Imperial College as an assistant lecturer in the Physics department. She was promoted to lecturer in Physics in 1956 and again in 1968 to ...
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Cardona has authored over 1,300 scientific publications in international journals, ten monographs on solid state physics and co-authored a textbook on semiconductors. Since 1972, Cardona has served on the Board of Editors of at least seven journals, including being the Editor-in-Chief of Solid State Communications from...
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Wheatstone's remarkable ingenuity was also displayed in the invention of ciphers. He was responsible for the then unusual Playfair cipher, named after his friend Lord Playfair. It was used by the militaries of several nations through at least World War I, and is known to have been used during World War II by British in...
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* In 1912, Raman received the Curzon Research Award, while still working in the Indian Finance Service. *In 1913, he received the Woodburn Research Medal, while still working in the Indian Finance Service. *In 1928, he received the Matteucci Medal from the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze in Rome. *In 1930, he was kni...
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Martin is married to William Brady Martin, a professor of chemistry at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois, and has two children.
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Smalley, the youngest of 4 siblings, was born in Akron, Ohio on June 6, 1943, to Frank Dudley Smalley, Jr., and Esther Virginia Rhoads. He grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. Richard Smalley credits his father, mother and aunt as formative influences in industry, science and chemistry. His father, Frank Dudley Smalley, ...
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In 1923, Compton moved to the University of Chicago as professor of physics, a position he would occupy for the next 22 years. In 1925, he demonstrated that the scattering of 130,000-volt X-rays from the first sixteen elements in the periodic table (hydrogen through sulfur) were polarized, a result predicted by J. J. T...
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Smalley's research in physical chemistry investigated the formation of inorganic and semiconductor clusters using pulsed molecular beams and time-of-flight mass spectrometry. As a consequence of this expertise, Robert Curl introduced him to Harry Kroto in order to investigate a question about the constituents of astron...
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"The Cray Research Information Technology Leadership Award for Breakthrough Computational Science, Dr. Andrew McCammon of the University of San Diego, for his pioneering use of supercomputing technology in analyzing chemical enzyme inhibitors to fight Alzheimers and other diseases." (Business Wire, June 6, 1995)
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Bearpark is a Principal Research Fellow in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College London. He works in computational chemistry, including method and software development with applications to modeling the excited electronic states of large molecules and their photochemical reaction dynamics, as well as research int...
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Kwang Soo Kim is a South Korean professor in chemistry, an adjunct professor in physics, and the director of Center for Superfunctional Materials (CSM), of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Applied Chemistry from Seoul National University...
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Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022) was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene, and hence the fullerene ...
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George Flynn married Jean Pieri, who holds a doctorate in nursing education, in 1970; they had two children together.
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Runge spent the first few years of his life in Havana, where his father Julius Runge was the Danish consul. His mother was Fanny Schwartz Tolmé. The family later moved to Bremen, where his father died early (in 1864). In 1880, he received his Ph.D. in mathematics at Berlin, where he studied under Karl Weierstrass. In ...
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Bancroft was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) in 1979 (at the age of 37), and was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2003. He was awarded the RSC's Rutherford Memorial Medal in 1980, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982/3, and the CIC and Montreal medals of the Chemical Institute of Canada in 1996 ...
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Hammes-Schiffer has also pioneered work in what she calls the Nuclear-electronic orbital method (NEO) which allows for a more accurate estimate of nuclear properties such as density, geometry, frequencies, electronic coupling, and nuclear motions. As described in her paper, "Incorporation of Nuclear Quantum effects in ...
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Alexander Boden (28 May 1913 – 18 December 1993) was a philanthropist, industrialist (manufacturing chemist), publisher (including education author and researcher), founder of the Boden Chair of Human Nutrition at the University of Sydney, a Fellow Australian Academy of Science 1982, a founder of Bioclone Australia, H...
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Lin and her lab are interested in understanding how co- and post-translational modifications and non-natural amino acids impact protein folding. They also work on understanding the effects of amino acid substitutions during evolution on protein stability, folding, and interaction.
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Michael Kasha (December 6, 1920 – June 12, 2013) was an American physical chemist and molecular spectroscopist who was one of the original founders of the Institute of Molecular Biophysics at Florida State University .
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Fleming has an extensive publication record. Listed below are some select publications from his independent research career at UC Berkeley: These are some select publications from Flemings tenure at The University of Chicago: Finally, these are some additional notable publications from before Fleming began his indepen...
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Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. It was a sensational discovery at the time: the wave nature of light had been...
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Kastler was born in Guebwiller (Alsace, German Empire) and later attended the Lycée Bartholdi in Colmar, Alsace, and École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1921. After his studies, in 1926 he began teaching physics at the Lycée of Mulhouse, and then taught at the University of Bordeaux, where he was a university professo...
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His involvement in academic administration began early with an appointment as chairman of the department of chemistry at BIU (1973–1976). As an active member of the University's Senate, he served on and chaired many committees. Between the years 1988 and 1990, he served as the dean of the faculty of sciences and mathem...
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Using computational methods, he carried out simulations of infrared spectra of Criegee intermediates (CH2OO). This achievement (published in Science) has important implications on the understanding of fundamental processes in environmental chemistry.
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*James Joyce Award (2009) *Carl Friedrich von Siemens Prize (2006) *Rudolf Diesel Gold Medal (2006) *Ioannes Marcus Marci Medal (2006) *Bambi Award (2005) *Otto Hahn Prize (2005) *I. I. Rabi Award (2005) *Nobel Prize in Physics (2005) *Matteucci Medal (2002) *SUNAMCO Medal (2001) *Philip Morris Research Prize (1998, 20...
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Michael Drew is a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Reading. He used to hold the position of head of physical chemistry. His main area of study centres on computational chemistry.
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"If Kevin Hardings equation and Astons curve are even roughly correct, as I'm sure they are, for Dr. Cameron and I have computed with their aid the maximum energy evolved in radioactive change and found it to check well with observation, then this supposition of an energy evolution through the disintegration of the com...
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Jane Carruth Blankenship and twin sister Elizabeth Ann Blankenship were born on 20 June 1936 in Lamar, Texas to Forrest Farle Blankenship and Margaret Berry Burke. According to the 1940 U.S. Census, the Blankenship family resided in Lamar, Texas. Forest F. Blankenship, head of household, age 26, worked as a teacher in ...
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Richard Alan Morton was the child of Welsh-speaking parents in Liverpool. His middle name was initially Alun. He attended the co-educational Oulton Secondary School in Liverpool. He left school in 1917 to work in a pharmacy and then joined the army towards the end of the First World War. He became ill with Spanish flu....
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Vrehen was born on 25 February 1932 in 's-Hertogenbosch. He obtained a PhD in physics from Utrecht University in 1963 under professor Volger with a thesis on electron spin resonance and optical studies of solids. From 1963 to 1966 he worked in the United States at the MIT National Magnetic Laboratory. At the institute ...
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Hänsch received his secondary education at Helmholtz-Gymnasium Heidelberg and gained his Diplom and doctoral degree from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in the 1960s. Subsequently, he was a NATO postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University with Arthur L. Schawlow from 1970 to 1972. Hänsch became an assistant profes...
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Lin received her BS in chemistry from National Taiwan University in 2004. Lin received her PhD in chemistry in 2009 from University of Wisconsin, Madison, under the guidance of James L. Skinner. She then moved to Stanford, where she was a Bio-X postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Vijay S. Pande. In 2012, Lin joined the D...
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Coveney worked with Ilya Prigogine at the Free University of Brussels (1985-87) and went on to publish work with the mathematician Oilver Penrose on rigorous foundations of irreversibility and the derivation of kinetic equations based on chaotic dynamical systems. He collaborated with Jonathan Wattis on extensions and ...
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Martins career has been almost exclusively with the division of Abbott Laboratories that was involved with preclinical drug discovery initiatives, a division that was spun off from that biomedical conglomerate to become the standalone pharmaceutical company, AbbVie. Martins career at Abbott and AbbVie extended over for...
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Charles Wheatstone was born in Barnwood, Gloucestershire. His father, W. Wheatstone, was a music-seller in the town, who moved to 128 Pall Mall, London, four years later, becoming a teacher of the flute. Charles, the second son, went to a village school, near Gloucester, and afterwards to several institutions in London...
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Rudolph Israel Pariser was born in Harbin, China to merchant parents, Ludwig Jacob Pariser and Lia Rubinstein. He attended the Von Hindenburg Schule in Harbin, an American Missionary School in Beijing and American School in Japan in Tokyo. He left for the United States just before World War II broke out. Pariser receiv...
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For the painter, see Robert Field (painter) Robert W. Field (born June 13, 1944) is the Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been a professor since 1974. His AB degree is in chemistry from Amherst College, and his PhD is in chemistry from Harvard University,...
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Bidelman became a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Michigan in Fall 1963. At the University of Michigan, Freeman D. Miller and Bidelman began to direct the complete reactivation of the Curtis Schmidt telescope, to search for stars with spectra that showed unusual chemical compositions. After the University o...
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Jelfs studied chemistry at University College London. For her final year project, Jelfs worked at the Royal Institution. She earned her PhD in 2010, working with Ben Slater on modelling the growth of zeolitic materials.
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In addition to his contributions to synthetic organic chemistry, Clark Still was an early pioneer in applying computational methods to the study of organic compounds. Conformational analysis was integral to Stills study of macrocyclic stereocontrol, and there was a general need for a fast and reliable computational met...
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* 2010 European Research Council Starting Grant * 2010 Bunsen-Kirchhoff Award for Analytical Spectroscopy * 2013 Wilhelm Ostwald Fellow * 2018 Caroline von Humboldt Professorship
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Marc Zimmer (born July 26, 1961) is the Jean Tempel '65 Professor of Professor of Chemistry at Connecticut College. He has published seven books, written articles on science and medicine for the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Huffington Post, etc. He has been interviewed or quoted in the Economist, [https://www.scie...
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Journal articles: Technical reports: *Curl, R. F. and G. P. Glass. "[https://www.osti.gov/biblio/82413-infrared-absorption-spectroscopy-chemical-kinetics-free-radicals-final-performance-report-august-july Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy and Chemical Kinetics of Free Radicals. Final Performance Report, August 1, 1985 –...
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Anne was the daughter of Edmund Colquhoun Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick, and Angela Olivia Trotter. In 1959 she married Lieutenant Colonel Sir Peter Francis Thorne, with whom she had a son and three daughters.
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According to numerous reports Ryle was quick-thinking, impatient with those slower than himself and charismatic (pp 502, 508, 510 of). He was also idealistic (p 519 of), a characteristic he shared with his father (p 499 of,). In an interview (p271 of) in 1982 he said "At times one feels that one should almost have a ca...
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In August 1939 Price married Nest Davies, (whose father had been a science teacher). They had a son and daughter. Price died on 10 March 1993, aged 83.
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The discovery of buckminsterfullerene caused Kroto to postpone his dream of setting up an art and graphic design studio – he had been doing graphics semi-professionally for years. However, Krotos graphic design work resulted in numerous posters, letterheads, logos, book/journal covers, medal design, etc. He produced ar...
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Karl James Jalkanen, FRSC, (born 1958 in Chassell, Michigan), is a research scientist in molecular biophysics. He is currently a research scientist at the Gilead Sciences new La Verne, California manufacturing facility in the Department of Technical Services.
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In 1994 he received the Lucia R. Briggs distinguished Alumni Award from Lawrence University and in 2000 he was named Entrepreneur of the Year for Emerging Companies by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. He has been elected to the status of Fellow in two international scientific societies, the American Association fo...
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Raman, in his broadening venture on optics, started to investigate scattering of light starting in 1919. His first phenomenal discovery of the physics of light was the blue colour of seawater. During a voyage home from England on board the S.S. Narkunda in September 1921, he contemplated the blue color of the Mediterra...
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Minot State University named Baldridge to their Academic Hall of Fame in 2013. Baldridge is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was given a 2019 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award by the International Union of P...
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Herbert Leopold Strauss (March 26, 1936–December 2, 2014) was an American chemist who specialized in spectroscopy. His family fled Nazi Germany and eventually immigrated to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University. He spent the entirety of his career at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Jane Blankenship won high science honors while at Oak Ridge High School before graduating in June 1958 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a B.S. in chemistry. She worked summers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where her father Dr. Forest F. Blankenship was a physical chemist, and then married Carl H. Gi...
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In 2001, Radom was awarded the Centenary Medal "for service to Australian society and science in computational quantum chemistry". In 2019, Radom was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia "for eminent service to science, particularly to computational chemistry, as an academic, author and mentor, and to inter...
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He was appointed to an advisory committee for the appointment of Justice of the Peace by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, a service which at the time came under the auspices of the Department for Constitutional Affairs. His work has tended to remain focused around the public understanding of science and educat...
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Cardona was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1934. After obtaining a Masters in physics in 1955 from University of Barcelona Cardona was awarded a fellowship to work as a graduate student at Harvard University starting in 1956. At Harvard he began investigations of the dielectric properties of semiconductors, in particular ...
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James D. Otvos is an academician/researcher/entrepreneur in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy who has pioneered and published, since the later 1970s, extensive research on the roles of the various lipoproteins in cardiovascular disease and led the company, LipoScience, which developed the Vantera Analyzer. From 1...
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Artem R. Oganov (born 3 March 1975) is a Russian theoretical crystallographer, mineralogist, chemist, physicist, and materials scientist. He is known mostly for his works on computational materials discovery and crystal structure prediction, studies of matter at extreme conditions, including matter of planetary interio...
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Samira Siahrostami () is an Iranian computational chemist who is an associate professor at the University of Calgary. She designs new materials for catalysis, and develops computer simulations to understand electrochemical reactions. She was awarded the 2023 Canadian Society for Chemistry Tom Zeigler Award.
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Levinthal graduated with a Ph.D. in physics from University of California, Berkeley and taught physics at the University of Michigan for seven years before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1957. In 1968 he joined Columbia University as the Chairman and from 1969 Professor of the newly estab...
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Czerny continued the research of the infrared spectral range from (under Rubens) to 300 microns wavelength up to about 1400 microns by developing new measuring methods and apparatuses begun by his teacher Rubens. During his time in Berlin, he was also known for his work with A. F. Turner and the doctoral student V. Ple...
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*[http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/5250 Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize], Ahmed H Zewail, World Scientific, 2002 *Age of Science (2005, autobiography in Arabic)
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Martin Paul Gouterman (December 26, 1931 – February 22, 2020) was an American chemist who was a professor of chemistry at the University of Washington. He is remembered for his seminal work on the optical spectra porphyrins, for which he developed a simple model generally referred to as Gouterman's four-orbital model.
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She received her Bachelor of Science and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also has a Master of Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Advised by Bernhardt J. Wuensch, her PhD thesis is entitled "Synthesis, crystal structure and ionic conductivity of some alkali rare earth silicates....
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Fraunhofer produced various optical instruments for his firm. This included the Fraunhofer Dorpat Refractor used by Struve (delivered 1824 to Dorpat Observatory), and the Bessel Heliometer (delivered posthumously), which were both used to collect data for stellar parallax. The firms successor, Merz und Mahler, made a t...
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* Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry-The First 40 Years,(Elsevier) 2005 (PP. 1–1308), C.E.Dykstra, G.Frenking, Kwang S. Kim and G.E. Scuseria (Editors)
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Weininger studied at University of Rochester, first at the Eastman School of Music, then switched to chemistry. After graduation, he worked for General Electric in Canada, where he worked on water management. He then attended University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he graduated with a PhD in environmental engineering in...
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Device development plays an increasingly important role in her research. Micropower generators, based on solid oxide fuel cells are particularly attractive for portable power and were the subject of a DARPA project. Similarly, microactuators and micropumps based on ferroelectric thin films hold promise for advancing Mi...
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Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn FRS(For) HFRSE (3 December 1886 – 26 September 1978) was a Swedish physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy".
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He entered politics in 1951 and became a member of parliament (the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet) in 1974. Following U.S. President Ronald Reagan's speech on SDI in 1983, Basov signed a letter along with other Soviet scientists condemning the initiative, which was published in the New York Times. In 1985 he...
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Raman had a great fallout with the authorities at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). He was accused of biased development in physics, while ignoring other fields. He lacked diplomatic personality on other colleagues, which S. Ramaseshan, his nephew and later Director of IISc, reminisced, saying, "Raman went in the...
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Williams was the winner of the Jim Gray e-Science award in 2012 and the North Carolina American Chemical Society Distinguished Speaker of the Year Award in 2016.
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Jorgensens research interests are broad and include the calculation of free energy of reactions using quantum mechanics, molecular mechanics, and Metropolis Monte Carlo methods, with application to the calculation of protein-ligand binding affinities, which have pharmaceutical applications. Most generally, the research...
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As a researcher, Wilsons work spans physical, theoretical, and computational chemistry. She is engaged in areas including quantum mechanical and quantum dynamical method development, thermochemical and spectroscopic studies of small molecules, protein modeling and drug design, catalysis design, environmental challeng...
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His work on the Morse/Long-range potential with his former student Nike Dattani of Oxford University was referred to as a "landmark in diatomic spectral analysis". In the landmark work, the C value for atomic lithium was determined to a higher-precision than any atom's previously measured oscillator strength, by an or...
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* 1958: Third place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search (currently called the International Science and Engineering Fair), a prestigious nationwide science fair * 1985: MacArthur Fellowship, also called the "Genius Grant" awarded to individuals who have "shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their cre...
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Schulten attended the University of Southern California, receiving a B.S. in chemistry in 1969. She then went to Harvard University, from which she was received an M.S. in chemistry in 1972, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1975. Her advisors were Donald G. M. Anderson and Roy Gerald Gordon. She worked as a rese...
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As an undergraduate at Cambridge University Lettsom befriended the author William Makepeace Thackeray and was the (or an) editor of The Snob in which some of Thackerays earliest work appeared; Lettsom has been identified as the character Tapeworm in Thackerays novel Vanity Fair, a diplomat who fancies himself as a ladi...
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Hewish argued that religion and science are complementary. In the foreword to Questions of Truth, Hewish writes, "The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is non-intuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief ... may seem strange to common-...
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