Daniel Neumark
American chemist (born 1955)
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Daniel Milton Neumark (born 27 March 1955)[1] is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
- Peter Debye Award (2019)
- Bourke Award (2018)
- Herbert P. Broida Award (2013)
- Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics (2008)
- William F. Meggers Award (2005)
Daniel Neumark | |
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| Born | 27 March 1955 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) (MA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
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| Fields | Physical chemistry |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | High resolution reactive scattering (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Yuan T. Lee |
Education
Neumark obtained his B.A. and M.A. from Harvard University, working as an undergraduate in the lab of Dudley Herschbach.[2] He went on to earn his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from University of California, Berkeley[3] in the lab of future Nobel laureate Yuan T. Lee.
Career and research
From 1984 to 1986 he was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Colorado, in the lab of W. Carl Lineberger at JILA.[3] He currently is a professor at University of California, Berkeley.[3] He was the director of the chemical sciences division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2000 to 2010.[3]
Neumark specializes in the use of ultra-high vacuum techniques (including molecular beams) and photochemistry to characterize the quantum states of elusive or short-lived chemical entities in the gas phase.[4][5] His research has involved the probing transition states using negative ion photoelectron spectroscopy,[6] investigation of the properties and dynamics of hydrated electrons using time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy on water clusters.[7] Neumark and fellow Berkeley professor Stephen Leone have collaborated on research probing quantum dynamics using attosecond spectroscopy.[8][9][10]
Awards and honours
Neumark won the William F. Meggers Award in 2005, the Irving Langmuir Award in 2008, the Herbert P. Broida Prize in 2013, the Bourke Award in 2018[11] and the Peter Debye Award in 2019.[12] He is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Physical Society.[13][3][14]
