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Physical Chemistry, Surface Science, Analytical Chemistry, Materials and Solid State Chemistry — New laser spectroscopy methods are developed for the study of molecular interactions, chemical imaging, molecular astrophysics, and novel forms of matter.

Active projects include nonlinear chemical imaging microscopy of nanostructured materials, polymers, and biological systems, terahertz laser spectroscopy of clusters, infrared cavity ringdown spectroscopy of ions and clusters, synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy of liquids and their surfaces, and chemical reactions at liquid surfaces. We continue to focus on problems involving liquid water and its surface.

Biography:

Professor, born 1947; B.S. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (1970); Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison (1977); National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow-NIST, Boulder, CO (1977-79); Dreyfus Award (1979); Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984); Miller Research Professor (1985-86); E.K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy (1989); Michelson Prize for Spectroscopy (1989); Lippincott Medal for Spectroscopy (1992); Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award (1992); ACS Harrison Howe Award (1992); Royal Society of Chemistry Bourke Medal (1992); Churchill Fellowship, Cambridge University (1995); Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (1995); Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995); Fellow of APS, OSA, and Royal Society of Chemistry; Member of National Academy of Sciences (1999); Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award (1999); ACS Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics (2000); Centenary Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2001); E.O. Lawrence Award (2004); Oxford University Hinshelwood Lectureship (2006).