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Martin Quack

Dr. Martin Quack

2009 Bomem-Michelson Awardee

Martin Quack, PhD

Full Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich

 

Martin Quack, born 22 July 1948 in Darmstadt, Germany, married, three children

1958 – 1966

Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium, Darmstadt

1966

Dilthey prize

1966 – 1971

Studies of Chemistry and Chemical Physics in Darmstadt, Grenoble, Göttingen
Diploma thesis on the resonance fluorescence of aniline vapour, with Prof. A. Weller and Dr. M. Stockburger at the Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie

1971

Diploma examination Göttingen University (Dipl. Chem.)

1973

Summer Institute in Quantum Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden

1972 – 1975

Doctoral dissertation on unimolecular reactions with Prof. Dr. J. Troe at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPF), Lausanne

1975

Doctoral examination at EPFL (Dr ès sces techn)

1975-1976

Assistant with J. Troe in Lausanne and Göttingen

1976-1977

Fellow of the Max-Kade-Foundation with Prof. W. H. Miller at the University of California, Berkeley

1978

Habilitation in Göttingen (Laser Chemistry and IR-Multiphoton Excitation)

After 1980

Fellow of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (Dozentenstipendium)

1982

Professor (C2) at the University of Göttingen

1982

Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein prize of the Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie

1982

Coblentz Society Lecturer, Columbus, Ohio

1982

Full Professor, University of Bonn

Since 1983

Full Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich

1984

Otto Klung prize of the Freie Universität Berlin

1984 – 1987

Associate editor and editor of Molecular Physics

1984 – 1998

Advisory editor of Chemical Physics Letters

1987

Bourke Lecturer and medal (Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain)

1988

Hinshelwood Lecturer (Oxford University) and
Christensen Fellow of St. Catherine’s College

1990

Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

1991

Otto Bayer Prize

1998

Elected member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, Leopoldina

1999

Elected member of the Berlin-Brandenburg (Prussian) Academy of Sciences

2002

Member of Swiss National Research Council (of the SNF)

2002

Elected member of the Academic Board of the BBAW

2002

Paracelsus Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society