Molecules in optical, electric and magnetic fields: a personal perspective
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A physical chemist offers a personal perspective on his life, from student days at the University of Sydney, Australia, around 1948, to days as a noted scientist at Cambridge in England, with measurement and interpretation of optical, electric and magnetic properties as a career focus. Physical chemistry and theoretical chemistry have advanced greatly in fifty years, having been qualitative, in the main, and having now attained a maturity based on principles of quantum and statistical mechanics. Such properties give information about charge and current distributions and are the basis for electro-optics, magneto-optics and nonlinear optics and help to shed light on the strength and nature of long-range intermolecular forces, molecular biology and the hydrogen bond. Gratitude to mentors, Raymond Le Fevre and John Pople, is expressed.
Publication Name: Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
Subject: Chemistry
ISSN: 0066-426X
Year: 1998
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Crossed-beam studies of reaction dynamics
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The crossed molecular beam scattering technique applied to gas-phase reaction and biomolecular reaction dynamics studies is described. The discussion focuses on three- and four-atom models to explain chemical reactions involving non-metals, atom-diatom abstraction, and insertion reactions.
Publication Name: Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
Subject: Chemistry
ISSN: 0066-426X
Year: 1999
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Optically detected magnetic resonance studies of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals
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The magneto-optical properties of II-VI and III-V semiconductor nanocrystals (NCS) capped with organic and inorganic epitaxial shells are reviewed. To study these physical properties, optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) spectroscopy was used.
Publication Name: Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
Subject: Chemistry
ISSN: 0066-426X
Year: 2004
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