Kenneth Pitzer
Chemist, Academic
1914 – 1997
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Who was Kenneth Pitzer?
Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer was an American physical and theoretical chemist, educator, and university president. He was described as "one of the most influential physical chemists of his era" whose work "spanned almost all of the important fields of physical chemistry: thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, molecular structure, quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, chemical bonding, relativistic chemical effects, properties of concentrated aqueous salt solutions, kinetics, and conformational analysis."
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- Born
- Jan 6, 1914
Pomona - Also known as
- Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, California Institute of Technology
Chemistry
( - 1935) - PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Chemistry
(1935 - 1937)
- Bachelor of Science, California Institute of Technology
- Employment
- President, Stanford University
(1968 - 1970) - University of California, Berkeley
(1937 - 1960) - President, Rice University
(1961 - 1968) - Director of Research, United States Atomic Energy Commission
(1949 - 1951)
- President, Stanford University
- Lived in
- California
(1968 - 1997/12/26)
- California
- Died
- Dec 26, 1997
Berkeley
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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