Professor James G. Anderson
Harvard University
时间: 2013年10月19日 (周六）下午3：30
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Prof. James G. Anderson earned his B.S. in Physics from the University of Washington and his PhD in Physics and Astrogeophysics from the University of Colorado. He joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1978 as the Robert P. Burden Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, and served as Chairman of the Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology during 1998-2001. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received many honors and awards, including the United Nations Vienna Convention Award for Protection of the Ozone Layer in 2005, the United Nations Earth Day International Award, and the American Chemical Society’s National Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology.

The Anderson research group addresses three domains in the physical sciences: (1) chemical reactivity viewed from the microscopic perspective of electron structure, molecular orbitals and reactivities of radical-radical and radical-molecule systems; (2) chemical catalysis sustained by free radical chain reactions that dictate the macroscopic rate of chemical transformation in Earth’s stratosphere and troposphere; and (3) mechanistic links between chemistry, radiation, and dynamics in the atmosphere that control climate.
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