Mark Ratner

Mark A. Ratner ( born December 8, 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American chemist, professor at Northwestern University is.

Ratner received his bachelor's degree in 1964 at Harvard University and in 1969 he received his PhD at Northwestern University. As a post - graduate student, he was 1969/70 in Aarhus and at the Technical University Munich. In 1970 he was Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor at New York University and in 1975 at Northwestern University, where he had a full professorship in 1980. 1988-1991 he was a faculty chairman.

He is a theoretical chemist, the particular charge transport in molecular structures studied with applications in molecular electronics. In 1974, he struck with Ari Aviram before the first molecular rectifier. It also deals quantum dynamics, self - assembly, nonlinear optics of molecules and mechanisms of energy storage at the nanoscale (photovoltaics, batteries).

He was a visiting scientist in Denmark ( visiting professor in Odense), the Netherlands and Israel, where he was a Fellow of the Jerusalem Advanced Study Institute.

He was Sloan Fellow. Ratner is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences, the New York Academy of Sciences and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. He received the 2001 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology in category theory, the Willard Gibbs Medal in 2012 and 2004, the Irving Langmuir Award.

He has been married since 1969.

Writings

  • With A. Nitzan: Electron transport in molecular wire junctions, Science, 300, 2003, 1384-1389
  • With C. Joachim: Molecular electronics: Some views on transport and beyond, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 102, 2005, 8800-8800
  • With GR Hutchison, TJ Marks Intermolecular charge transfer in between heterocyclic oligomers. Effects of heteroatom and molecular packing on hopping transport in organic semiconductors, Journal of the American Chemical Society 127, 2005, 16866-16881
  • GC Solomon, C. Herrmann, T. Hansen, V. Mujica Exploring local currents in molecular junctions, Nature Chemistry, 2, 2010, 223-228.
  • With George C. Schatz: Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry, Prentice- Hall 1993, Dover 2002
  • With George C. Schatz Introduction to Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry, Prentice- Hall 2000
  • Editor Joshua Jortner Molecular Electronics, Blackwell Science 1997
  • Publisher with Ari Aviram, Vladimiro Mujica Molecular Electronics II, New York Academy of Sciences 2002
  • Publisher with Ari Aviram Molecular Electronics. Science and Technology, New York Academy of Sciences 1998
  • Daniel Ratner Nanotechnology and homeland security: new weapons for new wars, Prentice Hall / PTR 2004
  • Daniel Ratner Nanotechnology: a gentle introduction to the next big idea, Prentice- Hall 2003
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