David Chandler (chemist)

David Chandler ( born October 5, 1944 in Brooklyn ) is an American chemist ( physical chemistry). He is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Chandler studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor 's degree in 1966 and in 1969 received his doctorate at Harvard University in chemical physics. In 1970 he became an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, where he received a full professorship in 1977. 1983 to 1985 he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and is since 1986 professor at Berkeley.

It deals with statistical mechanics, specifically structure, molecular dynamics and quantum processes in liquids, chemical equilibria and kinetics of liquids, aqueous solutions and hydrophobic effects, polymer melts and mixtures and complex fluids in biology. He developed techniques for the treatment of systems far from equilibrium statistical mechanics in the trajectory space, with whom he studied, among others, the glass transition.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1995 ) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2005 he received the Irving Langmuir Award, 1996 American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry and the 1998 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize. In 1999 he received the Humboldt Research Award. 1972 to 1974 he was a Sloan Fellow and 1981/82 Guggenheim Fellow.

He was consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and since 1996 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was a visiting scientist at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Lyon, at the University of Oxford, at Columbia University ( Visiting Professor 1977/78 ) and in 1991 Miller Professor at Berkeley.

Writings

• Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics, Oxford University Press 1987