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About George C. Schatz
- George C.
- Schatz (born April 14, 1949), the Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, is a theoretical chemist best known for his seminal contributions to the field of reaction dynamics.
- Born in Watertown, New York, he obtained his B.
- S.
- from Clarkson University in 1971 and his Ph.D.
- from Caltech in 1976 under Aron Kuppermann.
- Following postdoctoral work at MIT, he joined the Chemistry Department at Northwestern University.
- Schatz is a member of the Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit. A longtime senior editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry, he became its editor-in-chief in 2005.
- The journal previously (1997) having been split in Journal of Physical Chemistry A (molecular physical chemistry, both theoretical and experimental) and Journal of Physical Chemistry B (solid state, soft matter, liquids), Schatz initiated the spin-off of a third journal, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, focusing on nanotechnology and molecular electronics. Schatz is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, and many other such bodies.
- He authored over 900 scientific papers, and co-authored two books with his colleague Mark A.
- Ratner: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry and Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry.
- Schatz has won the Ahmed Zewail Prize award of the Journal Chemical Physics Letters for "outstanding contributions to the theory and understanding of gas-phase reaction dynamics, plasmonics, and nanostructured materials".
- The biennial Prize was developed by Elsevier to honor Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail, who was a longtime editor of Chemical Physics Letters.
- Schatz is the 7th winner of this international award.
- Recently much of Schatz's research has been concerned with nanotechnology and bionanotechnology.
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