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Biography of Michael D. Fayer
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ichael Fayer was born in 1947 in Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley with Prof. Charles B. Harris in 1974. After graduation, he joined the faculty of Stanford University, where he rose through the ranks to become the David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor of Chemistry. He is the author or coauthor of over 400 peer-reviewed publications. Over 100 students and postdoctoral researchers have been trained in his lab. Professor Fayer’s exceptional scientific work and educational activities have brought him numerous awards and honors, including the Ellis R. Lippincott Award from the Optical Society of America (2009), the E. Bright Wilson Award for Spectroscopy from the American Chemical Society (2007), the Earl K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy from the American Physical Society (2000), the Stanford University Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching (1986), the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1983), the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award (1977), and the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1977). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Fayer has made many critical contributions to the fields of molecular spectroscopy and molecular dynamics in his nearly 40-year long career. His experiments on the dynamics of molecules in condensed matter, including glasses and liquids, have had a profound impact on many fields and have been widely discussed in numerous review articles, books, and media. He is recognized as a major pioneer of many molecular spectroscopic methods that are now among the most widely implemented nonlinear optical techniques in chemistry, including the optical transient grating, the ultrafast vibrational photon echo, and two-dimensional infrared (2D-IR) spectroscopy.
Andrew H. Marcus Mark A. Berg Junrong Zheng
Special Issue: Michael D. Fayer Festschrift Published: December 12, 2013 © 2013 American Chemical Society
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dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp403915d | J. Phys. Chem. B 2013, 117, 15237−15237
