Stuart A. Rice
Stuart Alan Rice ( born January 6, 1932 in New York City ) is an American theoretical chemist and physical chemist.
Stuart A. Rice studied at Brooklyn College (SB 1952) and Harvard University (AM 1954), where he received his doctorate in 1955 with Paul Doty. As a post-doctoral researcher, he was Junior Fellow at Harvard. He is at the University of Chicago, most recently as Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor since 1957 professor.
He was a visiting scientist at Caltech ( Fairchild Scholar 1979) and 1999/2000 at the University of Oxford ( Newton - Abraham Professor ).
Rice combined in his work theory and experiment. In the 1950s he focused on the transport properties of liquids, such as the properties of liquid noble gases and of liquid methane. He conducted research in the field of excitons in molecular crystals and non-radiative electronic transitions in molecules, quantum chaos in the excited molecules and control of chaos with laser excitation. It also examined with liquid metals, their electronic band structure and interface properties.
More recently, he worked on the theory of active control of quantum dynamical processes with the aim of influencing chemical reactions by optimizing time-dependent fields. He also deals with physical chemistry of interfaces, such as liquid - solid or liquid - gas.
He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. He received 1955 deen A. Cressy Morrison Award of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1966, the Medal of the Free University of Brussels, 1963 Marlow Medal of the Faraday Society, 1997 Centennial Award at Harvard, 1999, the National Medal of Science, 2002, Hirschfelder medal of Theoretical Chemistry, 1985 Peter Debye Award, 1987 Joel Henry Hildebrand Award of the American chemical Society, the price of pure chemistry he was awarded the 1962, 2011 and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
He has over 100 graduate students.
1958 to 1962 he was a Sloan Fellow and Guggenheim Fellow 1960-1961.
He is the editor of Advances in Chemical Physics.
Writings
- With Mitsuro Nagasawa Polyelectrolyte solutions: a theoretical introduction, Academic Press 1961
- Peter Gray: The statistical mechanics of simple liquids: an introduction to the theory of equilibrium and non- equilibrium phenomena, Interscience 1965
- The kinetic theory of dense fluids, Mobil Oil Corp.. Research Department 1966 ( lectures)
- Published by Joshua Jortner, Raphael D. Levine Photoselective Chemistry, 2 Volumes, Wiley 1981
- Publisher with Ilya Prigogine evolution of size effects in chemical dynamics, Advances in Chemical Physics, Wiley 1988.
- Stephen Berry, John Ross Physical Chemistry, 2 Volumes, Wiley 1980
- Stephen Berry, John Ross Physical and Chemical Kinetics, Oxford University Press 2002