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Robert W. Field



Robert W. Field is the Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been a professor since 1974. His AB degree is in chemistry from Amherst College, and his PhD is in chemistry from Harvard University, where he worked with Bill Klemperer. He was a postdoc with Herbert Broida at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

He is a physical chemist, specializing in spectroscopy of small molecules in the gas phase. He performed the first microwave-optical and optical-optical double resonance experiments on small molecules, and invented the Stimulated Emission Pumping (SEP, or "Pump and Dump") spectroscopic method. He is also particularly known for studies of the molecules acetylene (C2H2) and calcium monofluoride (CaF).

He is the recipient of the Broida Prize, the Plyler Prize, the Lippincott Award, and the Nobel Laureate Signature Award. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

His active research group at MIT includes more than ten graduate students and postdocs working on experimental, theoretical and computational physical chemistry of small molecules.

Sources

http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/www/faculty/field.html

H. Lefebvre-Brion and R.W. Field, Perturbations in the Spectra of Diatomic Molecules, Academic Press, 1986.

 
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