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Mark Child

Mark Sheard Child FRS is a British chemist, and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

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Mark Sheard Child
Born (1937-08-17) 17 August 1937
Alma materClare College, Cambridge
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisThe vibrational spectra of electronically degenerate molecules (1963)
H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins1
Doctoral students
Peter Coveney2
Websiteresearch.chem.ox.ac.uk/mark-child.aspx

Mark Sheard Child FRS (born 17 August 1937)3 is a British chemist, and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Education

Child attended Pocklington School from 1947 to 1955.4 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,5 Molecular collision theory,6 Rydberg states78910 and Quantum Level Structures at a Saddle point.11121314

References

References

  1. "Chemistry Tree - Mark S. Child Details".
  2. Coveney, Peter V (1985). Semiclassical methods in scattering and spectroscopy (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 20 March 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
  3. CHILD, Prof. Mark Sheard, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  4. "Professor Mark Child FRS (1947-1955)". Old Pocklingtonians. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  5. Mark Child (1991). Semiclassical mechanics with molecular applications. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-855654-1.
  6. Mark Child (1996). Molecular collision theory. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-69437-5.
  7. Mark Child (2011). Theory of Molecular Rydberg States (Cambridge Molecular Science). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-76995-2.
  8. 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.
  9. Child, M. S. (1997). "The Rydberg states of H2O". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 355 (1729): 1623–1636. Bibcode:1997RSPTA.355.1623C. doi:10.1098/rsta.1997.0080. S2CID 93739122.
  10. 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. Bibcode:2002JPhB...35.1337H. doi:10.1088/0953-4075/35/5/316. S2CID 250830242.
  11. 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. Bibcode:1999MolPh..96..371C. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.324.1149. doi:10.1080/00268979909482971.
  12. 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 (1): 262. Bibcode:2001JChPh.114..262J. doi:10.1063/1.1330746.
  13. Child, M. S. (2007). "Quantum Monodromyand Molecular Spectroscopy". Advances in Chemical Physics. Vol. 136. pp. 39–02. doi:10.1002/9780470175422.ch2. ISBN 9780470175422.
  14. 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.