Summary
Research Interests
Research activities center around the theory of molecular collisions. Principal topics of current research include the dynamics of gas-surface reactions, collision-induced intramolecular energy flow and bond dissociation in large molecules, and vibrational relaxation of matrix-isolated guest molecules.
Schematic views of the molecule trapped in a cage of 12 nearest neighbors. (a) Minimum-energy icosahedral environment. (b) Coordinates for the molecule-to-1st neighbor interaction. The displaced neighbor is shown by a shaded circle.
Education
- Postdoctoral (1963-64), Cornell University (Benjamin Widom, Peter Debye)
- Postdoctoral (1961-62), National Bureau of Standards (Kurt Shuler)
- Ph.D. (1961), University of Utah (J. Calvin Giddings)
- B.S. (1959), University of Utah