William Klemperer
Aloys William Klemperer ( born October 6, 1927 in New York City ) is an American chemist.
Life
Klemperer attended the New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle and was in 1944 - on his 17th birthday - a soldier in the Navy Air Force ( United States Navy Air Corps ). After the Second World War, he wrote in 1946 at Harvard College, where in 1950 a bachelor's degree in chemistry acquired. 1954 acquired Klemperer at the George C. Pimentel at the University of California, Berkeley, a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. He then went back as a lecturer at Harvard University, where he rose rapidly and in 1965 was awarded a full professorship. At Harvard, Klemperer remained - interrupted only by a sabbatical year 1968/1969 in Cambridge, England ( including among Dennis Sciama ), working as an Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC (1979-1981) and the second sabbath semester at the University of California, Berkeley ( 1998) - until his retirement in 2002.
Klemperer is married to Elizabeth Cole since 1949, the couple has three children.
Work
Klemperer dealt with molecular structures, energy transfer and intermolecular forces, especially using spectroscopic methods. He made fundamental contributions to models of molecular formation and detection in the interstellar medium and is considered a pioneer of cosmochemistry.