Mark Child
Mark Sheard Child | |
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| Born | 17 August 1937 |
| Alma mater | Clare College, Cambridge |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | The vibrational spectra of electronically degenerate molecules (1963) |
| Doctoral advisor | H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins[1] |
| Doctoral students | Adam Kirrander Christopher D. Cooper Paul A. J. Sherratt Richard T. Lawton A.J. Duckett Josyf C. Mychaleckyj A.V. Chambers, Christopher J. Ahston M.R. Gover Paul M. Hunt Trevor Rayment John William Thomson Roger Blakeney Mallion Peter Coveney,[2] Colin Batchelor[3] |
| Website | research |
Mark Sheard Child FRS (born 17 August 1937)[4] is a British chemist, and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Education
He attended Pocklington School from 1947 to 1955.[5] 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,[6] Molecular collision theory,[7] Rydberg states[8][9][10][11] and Quantum Level Structures at a Saddle point.[12][13][14][15]
References
- ^ "Chemistry Tree - Mark S. Child Details".
- ^ Coveney, Peter V (1985). Semiclassical methods in scattering and spectroscopy (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
- ^ Batchelor, Colin (2003). Molecular Rydberg Dynamics (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
- ^ CHILD, Prof. Mark Sheard, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
- ^ http://www.pocklingtonschool.com
- ^ Mark Child (1991). Semiclassical mechanics with molecular applications. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-855654-3.
- ^ Mark Child (1996). Molecular collision theory. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-69437-2.
- ^ Mark Child (2011). Theory of Molecular Rydberg States (Cambridge Molecular Science). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-76995-7.
- ^ 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 H2O". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 355 (1729): 1623–1610. Bibcode:1997RSPTA.355.1623C. doi:10.1098/rsta.1997.0080.
- ^ 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. doi:10.1088/0953-4075/35/5/316.
- ^ 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. 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: 262. Bibcode:2001JChPh.114..262J. doi:10.1063/1.1330746.
- ^ Child, M. S. (2007). "Quantum Monodromyand Molecular Spectroscopy". Advances in Chemical Physics. 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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