Mark Ratner
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Mark Ratner is Morrison Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. Ratner is interested in structure and function at the nanoscale, and the theory of fundamental chemical processes. He tries to bring together structure and function in molecular nanostructures, based on theoretical notions, on exemplary calculations, and (very importantly) on collaborations with experimentalists and other theorists, in the US and around the world. Some areas of interest are molecular electronics, electron transfer, self-assembly, nonlinear response in molecules, and theories of quantum dynamics. In the interstices, he spends as much time trout fishing as he possibly can. [1]
Born in Cleveland in 1942, Ratner graduated from Harvard University in 1964 with an undergraduate degree in chemistry. He obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry from Northwestern University working with G. Ludwig Hofacker, did postdoctoral work in Aarhus and Munich with Jan Linderberg, and taught chemistry at New York University from 1970 until 1974. Later he served as a visiting professor with the National Sciences Research Council at Odense University. Currently, Ratner is Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, where he served as department chair from 1988 until 1991 and as associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1980 until 1984. He was nominated to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002. [2][3]
Mark lives with his wife, Nancy who also used to teach in Highland Park, Illinois . He has two kids, Stacey and Daniel, both of which are now grown up. Stacey is the creative director of driveitaway.com has spent a decade designing for clients including Open Books, The Nanotechnology Alliance, Sittercity, Driveitaway, Wired Business, Ionospeed, Snapdragon Technologies, The Automotive Fleet & Leasing Association, Brown University, Northwestern University, Dover Saddlery, Bits & Pieces, Harvard Translations, The MIT Press, The Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau, and The Conference On Computers, Freedom, & Privacy. A graduate of Brandeis University and Boston College Law School, she is delighted to be working with the creative artistes of OperaModa. Dan Ratner is an entrepreneur and is also associated with Mark's involvement in Nano sciences.
