American theoretical chemist
George Chappell Schatz (born April 14, 1949), the Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University , is a theoretical chemist best known for his seminal contributions to the fields of reaction dynamics and nanotechnology .
Early life and career
Born in Watertown, New York and raised in Sackets Harbor, New York , he obtained his B. S. in chemistry from Clarkson University in 1971.[ 1] At Clarkson, he was mentored by organic chemistry professor Richard Partsch, who encouraged him to spend a summer working at Argonne National Laboratory in 1971. He went on to earn a Ph.D. from Caltech in 1976[ 1] under Aron Kuppermann . While working on his doctorate, he took classes taught by Richard Feynman on quantum electrodynamics and particle physics . Following postdoctoral work at MIT under John Ross , he joined the chemistry department at Northwestern University . Schatz is a member of the Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit .[ 2]
To date he has co-authored over 1000 scientific papers[ 3] and co-authored two books with his colleague Mark A. Ratner : Introduction to Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry and Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry. Recently much of Schatz's research has been concerned with nanotechnology and bionanotechnology .[ 4] His work has collectively received over 130,000 citations,[ 5] including a 2003 article on the optical properties of nanoparticles which has been cited more than 12,000 times.[ 6]
A longtime senior editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry , he became its editor-in-chief in 2005. The journal previously (1997) having been split in Journal of Physical Chemistry A (molecular physical chemistry, both theoretical and experimental) and Journal of Physical Chemistry B (solid state, soft matter, liquids), Schatz initiated the spin-off of a third journal, Journal of Physical Chemistry C , focusing on nanotechnology and molecular electronics .
Awards and honors
Schatz is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1987) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2007) and the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science . Schatz has won the Ahmed Zewail Prize award of the journal Chemical Physics Letters for "outstanding contributions to the theory and understanding of gas-phase reaction dynamics, plasmonics, and nanostructured materials". The biennial prize was developed by Elsevier to honor Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail , who was a longtime editor of the journal.
References
^ a b "Editor Profile" . ACS Publications . American Chemical Society . Archived from the original on 20 August 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2018 .
^ Mossman, Kaspar (2007-12-26). "Profile of George Schatz" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 104 (52): 20654–20655. Bibcode :2007PNAS..10420654M . doi :10.1073/pnas.0710466104 . ISSN 0027-8424 . PMC 2409209 . PMID 18093942 .
^ "Professor George C. Schatz" . The Schatz Group . August 3, 2023.
^ Mielke, Steven L.; Belytschko, Ted; Schatz, George C. (May 5, 2007). "Nanoscale Fraction Mechanics". Annual Review of Physical Chemistry . 58 : 185–209. Bibcode :2007ARPC...58..185M . doi :10.1146/annurev.physchem.58.032806.104502 . PMID 17059367 .
^ "Google Scholar: George C. Schatz" . August 3, 2023.
^ Kelly, K. Lance; Coronado, Eduardo; Zhao, Lin Lin; Schatz, George C. (2003-01-01). "The Optical Properties of Metal Nanoparticles: The Influence of Size, Shape, and Dielectric Environment" . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B . 107 (3): 668–677. doi :10.1021/jp026731y . ISSN 1520-6106 .
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