British chemist
Mark Sheard Child FRS (born 17 August 1937)[ 3] is a British chemist , and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford .
Education
Child attended Pocklington School from 1947 to 1955.[ 4] He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge in 1963 with a thesis on The vibrational spectra of electronically degenerate molecules .
Research
Child's research interests include semiclassical mechanics,[ 5] Molecular collision theory ,[ 6] Rydberg states [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] and Quantum Level Structures at a Saddle point .[ 11] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14]
References
^ "Chemistry Tree - Mark S. Child Details" .
^ Coveney, Peter V (1985). Semiclassical methods in scattering and spectroscopy (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
^ CHILD, Prof. Mark Sheard , Who's Who 2014 , A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
^ "Professor Mark Child FRS (1947-1955)" . Old Pocklingtonians . 16 June 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2023 .
^ Mark Child (1991). Semiclassical mechanics with molecular applications . Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-855654-1 .
^ Mark Child (1996). Molecular collision theory . New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-69437-5 .
^ Mark Child (2011). Theory of Molecular Rydberg States (Cambridge Molecular Science) . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-76995-2 .
^ Child, M. S. ; Jungen, C. (1990). "Quantum defect theory for asymmetric tops: Application to the Rydberg spectrum of H2O". The Journal of Chemical Physics . 93 (11): 7756. Bibcode :1990JChPh..93.7756C . doi :10.1063/1.459355 .
^ Child, M. S. (1997). "The Rydberg states of H2 O". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences . 355 (1729): 1623– 1636. Bibcode :1997RSPTA.355.1623C . doi :10.1098/rsta.1997.0080 . S2CID 93739122 .
^ Hiyama, M.; Child, M. S. (2002). "Ab initio R-matrix/multichannel quantum defect theory study of nitric oxide". Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics . 35 (5): 1337. Bibcode :2002JPhB...35.1337H . doi :10.1088/0953-4075/35/5/316 . S2CID 250830242 .
^ Child, M. S. ; Weston, T.; Tennyson, J. (1999). "Quantum monodromy in the spectrum of H2O and other systems: New insight into the level structure of quasi-linear molecules". Molecular Physics . 96 (3): 371. Bibcode :1999MolPh..96..371C . CiteSeerX 10.1.1.324.1149 . doi :10.1080/00268979909482971 .
^ Jacobson, M. P.; Child, M. S. (2001). "Spectroscopic signatures of bond-breaking internal rotation. II. Rotation-vibration level structure and quantum monodromy in HCP". The Journal of Chemical Physics . 114 (1): 262. Bibcode :2001JChPh.114..262J . doi :10.1063/1.1330746 .
^ Child, M. S. (2007). "Quantum Monodromyand Molecular Spectroscopy". Advances in Chemical Physics . Vol. 136. pp. 39– 02. doi :10.1002/9780470175422.ch2 . ISBN 9780470175422 .
^ Cooper, C. D.; Child, M. S. (2005). "Quantum level structures at a Fermi resonance with angular momentum: Classical periodic orbits, catastrophe maps and quantum monodromy". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics . 7 (14): 2731– 2739. Bibcode :2005PCCP....7.2731C . doi :10.1039/B502772C . PMID 16189587 .
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