The American Chemical Society celebrates the centennial of the Physical Chemistry division.

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The American Chemical Society celebrates the
centennial of the Physical Chemistry division.
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Phys Chem Bylaws
The principal objectives of the Division are

• The advancement of knowledge in the field of
  physical chemistry
• The advancement of knowledge in other fields of
  science that
• depend upon developments in physical chemistry

To attain its objectives the Division

• Arrange programs of related papers at national
  meetings of the
• SOCIETY and at various special sessions
• Provide symposia planned either to catalyze
  progress in certain fields
• or to acquaint larger audiences with the
  problems and achievements
• of specialized groups of workers
• May own, sponsor, or administer appropriate
  journals in accordance
• with provisions of the Constitution and Bylaws
  of the SOCIETY, if
• the members vote explicitly for a definite
  plan.

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Current Officers of Phys Chem

• Gregory A. Voth, ChairSalt Lake City, UT
• Laurie J. Butler, Chair-ElectChicago, IL
• Anne B. McCoy, Secretary-TreasurerColumbus, OH
• Martin Head-Gordon, Vice-ChairBerkeley, CA
• Mark A. Johnson, Vice-Chair ElectNew Haven, CT
• Councilors
• John E. Adams, Paul Jagodzinski, Michael R.
  Berman and Ellen Strechel
• Alternate CouncilorVeronica Vaida, James M.
  Lisy, Gang-Yu Liu and Edwin J. Heilweil
• Executive CommitteeMarsha Lester, Jingsong
  Zhang, C. David Sherrill, Will Polik, Vicki
  Grassian, and Gustavo E. Scuseria
• Bruce D. Kay, Past ChairPNNL

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Current Officers of Phys Chem Biophysical
Subdivision

• Cecilia Clementi, ChairHouston, TX
• Martin Zanni, Chair-ElectMadison, WI
• TBA, Vice-Chair Elect
• TBA, Secretary
• Jeffrey Saven, Past Chair
• Philadelphia, PA

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Current Officers of Phys Chem Theoretical
Subdivision

• Todd G. Martinez, ChairUrbana, IL
• H. Bernard Schlegel, Chair-ElectDetroit, MI
• Gerhard Hummer, Vice-Chair ElectNIH
• Jan Steckel, Secretary
• NETL
• Angel Garcia, Past Chair
• Troy, NY

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Time-line of notable events and individuals

• Wilder D. Bancroft (1867 - 1953)
• Founder of The Journal of Physical Chemistry in
  1896

• Max Planck introduces before the German Physical
  Society a hypothesis of light as quantized energy
  packets in 1900

• Marie Curie (1876 - 1934)
• Presented doctoral thesis to Paris faculty of
  science June 25, 1903. The thesis summarized the
  work for which she would share the Nobel prize
  that same year.
• Was appointed professor of physics at the
  Sorbonne, 1906 (the first woman professor there).

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• Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn met September 28,
  1908. Their collaboration led, 30 years later, to
  the experimental detection and interpretation of
  fission.

• Fritz Haber (1868-1934)
• demonstrated nitrogen fixation process (Haber
  process for synthetic ammonia) to Badische
  Aniline und Soda-Fabrik (BASF) in 1909.

• Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958)
• Paper on the exclusion principle is published in
  Zeitschrift für Physik, March 21,1925.

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• Peter Debye (1884-1966)
• Editor of Physikalishe Zeitschrift in 1915 and
  continued to act in this capacity until 1940.

• Lars Onsager (1903-1976)
• Obtained the exact solution for the two
  dimensional Ising model at the critical point in
  1944.

• Linus Pauling (1901-1944)
• Published landmark paper detailing his theory of
  orbital hybridization and introduced the concept
  of electronegativity in 1932.
• Proposed the alpha helix and beta sheet as the
  primary structural motifs in protein secondary
  structure in 1951

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• Henry Eyring (1901-1981)
• Advances in chemical kinetics, transition state
  theory

• Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
• Reported the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto
  Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, and its interpretation
  by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch, to the Fifth
  Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics,
  1939.

• Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
• 1905, photoelectric effect
• 1909, wave-particle duality
• Major contributor/critic of quantum theory
• 1939, sent letter about military implications of
  atomic energy to President Franklin Roosevelt

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• Katherine Burr Blodgett (1898 - 1979)
• Advances in thin films (Langmuir-Blodgett films)
  anti-reflective coatings gas-surface
  interactions
• Received the Garvan Medal in 1951

• First artificially initiated self-sustained
  nuclear fission reaction (Chicago pile one) under
  Stagg Field, University of Chicago, 1942.

• George Claude Pimentel (1922-1989)
• Advances in spectroscopy, chemical education
• Israel's Wolf Prize (1982), the National Medal of
  Science (1985), the Welch Award (1986), and the
  Priestley Medal (1989).

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• John Clarke Slater (1900-1976) Described orbital
  approaches to quantum chemistry (Slater-type
  orbitals, Slater determinant) tetrahedral carbon
  compounds

• John Pople (1925-2004)
• Co-author Gaussian 70 and co-founder Q-Chem
  computational chemistry programs.

• Darleane Christian Hoffman (1926-)
• Production and study of transuranium elements
  discovery of 244Pu in nature
• Garvan Medal, 1990
• Priestley Medal, 2000.

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American Phys Chem Nobel Laureates

• 2002 John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wüthrich
• for the development of methods for
  identification and structure analysis of
  biological macromolecules
• for their development of soft desorption
  ionization methods for mass spectrometric
  analysis of biological macromolecules
• for his development of nuclear magnetic
  resonance spectroscopy for determining the
  three-dimensional structure of biological
  macromolecules in solution
• 1999 Ahmed Zewail
• "for his studies of the transition states of
  chemical reactions using femtosecond
  spectroscopy
• 1998 Walter Kohn, John A. Pople
• for his development of the density-funcional
  theory
• for his developemtn of computational methods in
  quantum chemistry

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• 1996 Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold Kroto,
• Richard E. Smalley
• for their discovery of fullerenes
• 1995 Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina,
• F. Sherwood Rowland
• for their work in atmospheric chemistry,
  particularly the formation and decomposition of
  ozone
• 1992 Rudolph A. Marcus
• for his contributions to the theory of electron
  transfer in chemical systems

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• 1986 Dudley R. Hershbach, Yuan T. Lee,
• John C. Polanyi
• for their contributions concerning the dynamics
  of chemical elementary processes
• 1981 Henichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann
• for their theories, developed independently,
  concerning the course of chemical reactions
• 1974 Paul J. Flory
• for his fundamental achievements, both
  theoretical and experimental, in the physical
  chemistry of the macromolecules

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• 1968 Lars Onsager
• for the discovery of the reciprocal relations
  bearing his name which are fundamental for the
  thermodynamics of irreversible processes
• 1966 Robert S. Mulliken
• for his fundamental work concerning chemical
  bonds and the electronic structure f molecules by
  the molecular orbital method
• 1960 Willard Frank Libby
• for his method to use carbon-14 for age
  determination in archaeology, geology,
  geophysics, and other branches of science

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• 1954 Linus Carl Pauling
• for his research into the nature of the chemical
  bond and its application to the elucidation of
  the structure of complex substances
• 1949 William Francis Giauque
• for his contributions in the field of chemical
  thermodynamics particularly concerning the
  behavior of substances at extreme temperatures
• 1934 Harold Clayton Urey
• for his discovery of heavy hydrogen

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• 1932 Irving Langmuir
• for his discoveries and investigations in
  surface chemistry
• 1914 Theodore William Richards
• in recognition of his accurate determination of
  the atomic weight of a large number of chemical
  elements

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Centennial Symposium Celebrating the Past,
Embracing the Future
236th National Meeting, Philadelphia August 19
and 20, 2008
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To learn more about the PHYS division, visit them
on the web at http//www.hackberry.trinity.edu/PH
YS/
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• This presentation was prepared in collaboration
  with the Younger Chemists Committee (YCC)
• Web page http//www.acs.org/ycc
• Email ycc_at_acs.org)