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5 unusual facts about Physical chemistry


Christopher Jaroniec

Christopher Jaroniec is an American associate professor of analytical, physical, chemical physics and biochemistry.

Hans Lineweaver

Hans Lineweaver (December 25, 1907 – June 10, 2009) was an American physical chemist, who developed the Lineweaver–Burk plot.

Jan Zawidzki

Jan Wiktor Tomasz Zawidzki (December 20, 1866 in Włóki, Masovian Voivodeship – September 14, 1928 in Warsaw) was a Polish physical chemist and historian of chemistry.

Manfred Baerns

From 1991 to 1997 he was member of the board DECHEMA (a scientific association of chemical technology, chemical engineering and biotechnology), and a permanent member of he German Chemical Society, the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry, German Society for Coal, Oil and Gas, and finally the American Chemical Society.

Physiochemical

Not to be confused with Physicochemical which refers to Physical chemistry.


Amir Hamudi Hasan al-Sadi

He was awarded a PhD is in physical chemistry from Battersea College of Technology.

Molecular Frontiers Foundation

The Molecular Frontiers Foundation (MFF) was founded under the auspices of the Nobel Foundation in 2007 by Bengt Nordén, a professor of physical chemistry at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the former chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.

Robert Curl

Professor Curl's current research interests involve physical chemistry, developing DNA genotyping and sequencing instrumentation, and creating quantum cascade laser-based mid-infrared trace gas monitoring instrumentation.

Rodney H. Banks

In 1980, he received his Ph.D. in inorganic/physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for Nobel laureate and fellow Perkin medal winner Glenn Seaborg on the synthesis and characterization of volatile actinide compounds.

Vladimir Polukhin

Polukhin is known for his contribution to physical chemistry and technology of optical and special types of glass, fiber-optic elements, and micro channel structures.

Wojciech Świętosławski

Świętosławski was Vice-Chairman of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and created the foundations for a new branch of physical chemistry: polyazeotropy.


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Andrzej Waksmundzki

Dr. Waksmundzki organized the Chair of Physical Chemistry in the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, he was appointed Professor Extraordinarius in 1950 and Professor Ordinarius ten years later.

Cardiff University School of Medicine

A number of Cardiff University staff have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, these include Graham Hutchings, professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of the Cardiff Catalysis Institute, School of Chemistry and Professor Ole Holger Petersen, director of Cardiff School of Biosciences.

David Rivett

In 1910 Rivett spent six months at the Nobel Institute of Physical Chemistry at Stockholm working with the Director, Svante Arrhenius.

End-to-end vector

In the physical chemistry study of polymers, the end-to-end vector is the vector that points from one end of a polymer to the other end.

Georgi Bliznakov

In 1949 he joined the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute in Sofia (now the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy) as an assistant where he stayed until moving to the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at Sofia University in 1951, becoming full professor and head of department in 1960.

Kołos Medal

The Kołos Medal is a prestigious medal awarded every 2 years by the University of Warsaw and the Polish Chemical Society for distinction in theoretical or experimental physical chemistry.

Morgan Sparks

Sparks was born in Pagosa Springs, Colorado and became an undergraduate at Rice University and then did his PhD work in physical chemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

P. G. Ashmore

Professor Philip George Ashmore, known as Sandy Ashmore, born Derbyshire, England, 5 May 1916, died 25 March 2002, was an English academic chemist and the first Professor of Physical Chemistry at UMIST, Manchester.

Pendleton College

Prof John Pyle, Professor of Physical Chemistry since 2007 at the University of Cambridge, and Director since 1992 of the Centre for Atmospheric Science

Peter Agre

He also contemplated the fact that both Germany and China have leaders who are trained research scientists (Germany: Angela Merkel, PhD, Physical Chemistry; China: Hu Jintao, Hydraulic Engineer).

Philippe A. Guye

Philippe A. Guye FRS (12 June 1862 – 27 March 1922) was a Swiss chemist that was awarded the Davy Medal in 1921 "for his researches in physical chemistry".

Pierre Victor Auger

He then joined the physical chemistry laboratory of the faculté des sciences of the University of Paris under the direction of Jean Perrin to work there on the photoelectric effect.

Ralph Raphael

He was Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow from 1957-1972, and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, Professor of Organic Chemistry, and Head of the Department of Chemistry (in reality of Theoretical, Organic and Inorganic Chemistry since Physical Chemistry was a separate department until the early 1980s) at Cambridge University, 1972-88, then Honorary Fellow and Professor Emeritus.

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

Norrish rejoined Emmanuel College as a Research Fellow in 1925 and later became the Head of the Physical Chemistry Department at the University of Cambridge, occupying part of the Lensfield Road Building with the separate department 'Chemistry' (which encompassed organic, theoretical and inorganic chemistry).

Thomas Ebbesen

Thomas Ebbesen received his bachelors from Oberlin College, and a PhD from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris in the field of photo-physical chemistry.

Utpal Banerjee

He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India and obtained his Master of Science degree in Physical Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

Vincent R. Gray

Gray has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Cambridge University after studies on incendiary bomb fluids made from aluminium soaps.

Younan Xia

Dr. Xia received his PhD degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University (with Professor George M. Whitesides) in 1996, his M.S. degree in inorganic chemistry from University of Pennsylvania (with the late Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid, a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2000) in 1993, and his B.S. degree in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1987.