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Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volume 72, 2021

My Trajectory in Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Spectroscopy

Abstract

This is the story of a career in theoretical chemistry during a time of dramatic changes in the field due to phenomenal growth in the availability of computational power. It is likewise the story of the highly gifted graduate students and postdoctoral fellows that I was fortunate to mentor throughout my career. It includes reminiscences of the great mentors that I had and of the exciting collaborations with both experimentalists and theorists on which I built much of my research.

This is an account of the developments of exciting scientific disciplines in which I was involved: vibrational spectroscopy, molecular reaction mechanisms and dynamics, e.g., in atmospheric chemistry, and the prediction of new, exotic molecules, in particular noble gas molecules.

From my very first project to my current work, my career in science has brought me the excitement and fascination of research. What a wonderful pursuit!

Keyword(s): ab initio molecular dynamics, aerosol chemistry, anharmonic methods, atmospheric chemistry, autobiography, molecular reaction dynamics, noble gas chemistry, photochemistry, polynitrogens, vibrational spectroscopy
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