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Mark Sheard Child
Born (1937-08-17) 17 August 1937 (age 87)
Alma mater Clare College, Cambridge
Awards Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
Institutions University of Oxford
Thesis The vibrational spectra of electronically degenerate molecules (1963)
Doctoral advisor H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins
Doctoral students Peter Coveney

Mark Sheard Child FRS (born 17 August 1937) is a British chemist, and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Education

Child attended Pocklington School from 1947 to 1955. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge in 1963 with a thesis on The vibrational spectra of electronically degenerate molecules.

Research

Child's research interests include semiclassical mechanics, Molecular collision theory, Rydberg states and Quantum Level Structures at a Saddle point.

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