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Dr. Herschbach is the Baird Professor of Science at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics in 1958. His research on the molecular dynamics of chemical reactions was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1986. Other honors include the National Medal of Science in 1991 and the Scientific Society Presidents' Award in 1999. He has published over 400 scientific papers dealing chiefly with chemical kinetics, molecular spectra and collision processes, theory of molecular vibrations and electronic structure, solvent-solute interactions as revealed by spectra at high pressure, catalytic reactions in drastically nonequilibrium systems, and a dimensional scaling approach to strongly correlated many-body interactions. His current research is devoted to methods of orienting molecules for studies of collision stereodynamics, means of slowing and trapping molecules in order to examine chemistry at long deBroglie wavelengths, and analysis of biomolecular motors. | 