Sylvia T. Ceyer

Sylvia T. Ceyer ( born December 18, 1953 in Chicago) is an American chemist who deals with physical chemistry and surface chemistry.

Ceyer studied at Hope College with a bachelor 's degree in chemistry in 1973 and in 1979 received his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley with Yuan T. Lee and Gabor Somorjai. As a post - doctoral student, she was at the National Bureau of Standards. In 1981, she was Assistant Professor and later Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she presided from 2010 to the chemistry faculty.

It deals with chemical reactions on surfaces, especially the difference of reactions under high vacuum to those under high pressure. They used this electron energy loss spectroscopy to reactions at the surface of which in the medium of absorbed molecules to be distinguished.

She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Physical Society. In 1987 she received the Harold E. Edgerton Award and 2007, the Willard Gibbs Medal. 1986-1988 she was Sloan Fellow.