Researcher's Profile

Biography

June 1965	Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
June 1965	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
February 1967	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University
1968	Assistant Professor, The James Franck Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
1971	Associate Professor, The James Franck Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
1973	Professor, The James Franck Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
1974	Professor, Department of Chemistry/ Pricipal Investigator, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
1986	Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1994	President, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2011	President, International Council for Science (ICSU)
October 2019	RCAST Fellow, RCAST, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo)
November 2019	Visiting Professor, Tokyo College, UTokyo

Structure and chemical behavior of highly reactive polyatomic radicals and unusual transient species
Mechanisms and dynamics for elementary chemical reactions and primary photodissociation processes
The nature of intra- and intermolecular energy relaxation
Bond-selective, regio-selective or mode-selective means to modify and manipulate chemical reactivity
Radical intermediates that are critical in combustion and atmospheric processes
Promotion of "Future Earth", a major international platform providing the knowledge and support to accelerate transformations of the human society towards the Sustainable Development Goals

Chemical dynamics and spectroscopy; Sustainable transformations of human society