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David Chandler
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David Chandler (born October 15, 1944 – died April 18, 2017) was an important chemist who studied how tiny particles behave. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, which is a group of top scientists. He won the Irving Langmuir Award for his work. David Chandler wrote two books and over 300 science papers.
About David Chandler
David Chandler was born in New York City in 1944. He studied chemistry at MIT and earned his Ph.D. in chemical Physics at Harvard in 1969.
He started teaching at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign in 1970. He became a full professor there in 1977. Before joining Berkeley in 1986, he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania.
His Scientific Work
David Chandler's main area of study was called statistical mechanics. This is a way of understanding how large groups of tiny particles, like atoms and molecules, behave. He helped create new ways to understand how materials change and react.
He explained how liquids work at a very small level. His ideas helped scientists understand many things. This included how water acts with other substances and how plastics are formed.
Chandler also found ways to use computers to study rare but important events in science. This helped him study things like how materials build themselves and how glass forms.
David Chandler passed away in Berkeley, California, in 2017. He was 72 years old.
Awards and Recognition
David Chandler received many awards for his important work. These awards showed how much his ideas helped science.
Some of his honors include:
- Awards from the American Chemical Society.
- The Irving Langmuir Chemical Physics Prize from the American Physical Society.
- Lectureships from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- He was chosen to be a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
- He was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- In 2011, he became a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
He was twice given a Miller Professorship at the University of California Berkeley. In 2016, he was named a Miller Senior Fellow.
