Klemperer, William - Harvard University - Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

个人简介

Bill Klemperer was born in New York City in 1927 and was raised there and in New Rochelle. His parents were both Physicians. Bill graduated from New Rochelle High school in 1944 and then enlisted in the U.S. Navy Air Corps, where he trained as a tail gunner. He obtained an A.B. from Harvard University in 1950, majoring in Chemistry, and then headed to the University of California, Berkeley, where in early 1954 he obtained a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry under the direction of George C. Pimentel. After one semester as Instructor at Berkeley, Bill returned to Harvard in July, 1954. Klemperer's initial appointment was an Instructor of Analytical Chemistry, but he quickly rose through the ranks and was appointed full professor in 1965. He has remained associated with Harvard Chemistry throughout his long career. He spent 1968-69 on sabbatical with the Astronomers at Cambridge University and 1979-81 as Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the U.S. National Science Foundation. He was a visiting scientist at Bell Laboratories during a time when it was the premier industrial laboratory. Klemperer became an Emeritus Professor in 2002 but is still active in both research and teaching.

研究领域

Physical/Chemical Physics

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Klemperer W. Astronomical Chemistry. Annual Review of Physical Chemistry . 2010;62. Yu Z, Higgins KJ, Klemperer W, McCarthy MC, Thaddeus P, Liao K, JÃger W. Rotational spectra of the van der Waals complexes of molecular hydrogen and OCS. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2007;127: 054305 -1-8. Klemperer W. Interstellar Chemistry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2006;103:12232-12234.Klemperer W, Vaida V. Molecular complexes in close and far away" William Klemperer and Veronica Vaida. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 2006;103:10584-10588.Medley P, Yu Z, Connors B, Klemperer W, Tsang SN, Chuang C-chi. Rovibrational spectra of the N2-HF complex at the vHF=3 level. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2006;24(21):214314/1-214314/8. Yu Z, Higgins KJ, Klemperer W, McCarthy MC, Thaddeus P. Nuclear hyperfine interaction of rotating hydrogen: a spectroscopic investigation of hydrogen-OCS van der Waals complexes. J. Chem. Phys. 2005;123: 221106-1-4.Yu Z, Klemperer W. Asymmetry in angular rigidity of hydrogen-bonded complexes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2005;102(36):12667-12669.Higgins KJ, Klemperer W. Structure and energy difference of two isomers of He-CH3F. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2005;122(24):244309/1-244309/12.Z Y, Hammam E, Klemperer W. The (4,0) mode of HF dimer at 14700 cm-1. J. Chem. Phys. 2005;122(194318):1-7. Klemperer W. Two problems of interstellar chemistry. In: Dense Interstellar Medium in Galaxies. Vol. 91. Springer Proceedings in Physics; 2004. pp. 51-54.Higgins ÂKJ, Freund SM, Klemperer W, Apponi AJ, Ziurys LM. The rotational spectrum and dynamical structure of LiOH and LiOD:Â A combined laboratory and ab initio study. J. Chem. Phys. . 2004;121:11715-11730.Yu Z, Chuang C-chi, Medley P, Stone TA, Klemperer W. Spectroscopy of the OC-HF hydrogen-bonded complex at vHF =3. J.Chem. Phys. 2004;120:6922-6929. Scappini ÂF, Cecci-Pestellini C, Smith H, Klemperer W, Dalgarno A. Hydrated sulfuric acid in dense molecular clouds. Â Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 2003;341:657-661.Yu ÂZ, Stone TA, Chuang C-C, Drisdell W, Klemperer W. Change of Geometry by vibrational excitation: The v HF =3 Spectrum and Structure of HF-CO2. J.Chem. Phys. 2003;118:7245-7255 . Tannenbaum E, Higgins KJ, Klemperer W, Segev B, Heller EJ. A Perturbative Approach to Vibrational Predissociation Rates:Application to ArHF. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2002;106:8100-8107 .