Professor

Jack David Dunitz

(
1923
2021
)
Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule
;
Zurich, Switzerland
Chemist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Chemistry
Elected
1997
International Honorary Member

Early research was mainly on the use of crystal structure analysis as a tool for studying chemical problems. From his laboratory came the method of deriving model pathways for prototypic chemical reactions from structural information in crystal structures, thus connecting the statics of crystals and the dynamics of reacting chemical systems. Other work in related directions included studies of atomic motion in crystals, and recently, he had turned to problems of polymorphism, phase transformations in solids, and solid-state chemical reactions. His recent work concerns the role of weak intermolecular interactions in condensed phases.

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