| Richard N. Zare | |
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| Born | November 19, 1939 Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| Residence | USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Chemist |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Dudley Herschbach |
| Doctoral students |
Hongkun Park |
Richard Neil Zare (born November 19, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American physical chemist. He is Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.
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Zare earned his B.A. in 1961 and his Ph.D. in 1964 in physical and analytical chemistry at Harvard University under the direction of Dudley Herschbach.
Zare is well known for his research in laser chemistry, resulting in a greater understanding of chemical reactions at the molecular level. He has also written a widely used textbook on the topic of angular momentum in quantum systems. He is member of the editorial advisory boards of several scientific publications, among them Chemistry World, Angewandte Chemie, Central European Journal of Chemistry, "Journal of Separation Sciences" and the "Chinese Journal of Chromatography". [1] [2]
Zare is the author of various academic papers involving the research of the spectroscopy of chemical compounds.[3]
Zare has been involved in astrobiology.[4] [5] He is co-author of a paper forwarding the hypothesis that a meteorite from Mars, ALH84001, contained traces of Martian life.[6] Other researchers have questioned these findings and they remain controversial.
Zare has been involved in public speaking in his home area of Silicon Valley and around the world.[7]
Fresenius Award, 1974; Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1976; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1976; Member, American Philosophical Society, 1991; Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London, 1999; Michael Polanyi Medal, 1979; Earle K. Plyler Prize, 1981; Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh Award, 1983; National Medal of Science, 1983; Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics, 1985; Michelson-Morley Award, 1986; Kirkwood Medal, 1986; Willard Gibbs Medal, 1990; Peter Debye Award, 1991; National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences, 1991; Dannie-Heineman Preis, 1993; The Harvey Prize, 1993; ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation, 1995; The Bing Fellowship Award, 1996; California Scientist of the Year Award, 1997; ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry, 1998; E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy, 1999; Welch Award in Chemistry, 1999; Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, 2000; Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education, 2000; Charles Lathrop Parsons Award, 2001; Faraday Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2001; Laurance and Naomi Carpenter Hoagland Prize, 2003; Foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2004; Foreign member Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, P.R.C., 2004; James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry, Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, 2004; The ACS (New York Section) Nichols Medal, 2004, Wolf Prize in Chemistry 2005,[8] [9] [10] the Priestley Medal in 2010,[11] and the King Faisal International Prize in 2011.[12]
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