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George C.

Schatz
George Chappell Schatz (born April 14, 1949), the
Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern George Chappell Schatz
University, is a theoretical chemist best known for his Born April 14, 1949
seminal contributions to the fields of reaction Nationality American
dynamics and nanotechnology. Education Clarkson University
Alma mater California Institute of
Technology
Early life and career
Awards Feynman Prize in
Born in Watertown, New York and raised in Sackets Nanotechnology (2008)
Harbor, New York, he obtained his B. S. in chemistry Peter Debye Award (2010)
from Clarkson University in 1971.[1] At Clarkson, he Irving Langmuir Award (2016)
was mentored by organic chemistry professor Richard Scientific career
Partsch, who encouraged him to spend a summer Fields reaction dynamics
working at Argonne National Laboratory in 1971. He
Institutions Northwestern University
went on to earn a Ph.D. from Caltech in 1976[1] under
Aron Kuppermann. While working on his doctorate, he Doctoral Aron Kuppermann
took classes taught by Richard Feynman on quantum advisor
electrodynamics and particle physics. Following
postdoctoral work at MIT under John Ross, he joined the chemistry department at Northwestern
University. Schatz is a member of the Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit.[2]

To date he has co-authored over 1000 scientific papers[3] and co-authored two books with his colleague
Mark A. Ratner: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry and Quantum Mechanics in
Chemistry. Recently much of Schatz's research has been concerned with nanotechnology and
bionanotechnology.[4] His work has collectively received over 130,000 citations,[5] including a 2003
article on the optical properties of nanoparticles which has been cited more than 12,000 times.[6]

A longtime senior editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry, he became its editor-in-chief in 2005. The
journal previously (1997) having been split in Journal of Physical Chemistry A (molecular physical
chemistry, both theoretical and experimental) and Journal of Physical Chemistry B (solid state, soft
matter, liquids), Schatz initiated the spin-off of a third journal, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, focusing
on nanotechnology and molecular electronics.

Awards and honors


Schatz is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1987) and a member of the National Academy of
Sciences (2007) and the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. Schatz has won the
Ahmed Zewail Prize award of the journal Chemical Physics Letters for "outstanding contributions to the
theory and understanding of gas-phase reaction dynamics, plasmonics, and nanostructured materials".
The biennial prize was developed by Elsevier to honor Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail, who was a
longtime editor of the journal.

References
1. "Editor Profile" (https://web.archive.org/web/20180820155629/https://pubs.acs.org/page/jpcl
cd/profile.html). ACS Publications. American Chemical Society. Archived from the original (ht
tps://pubs.acs.org/page/jpclcd/profile.html) on 20 August 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
2. Mossman, Kaspar (2007-12-26). "Profile of George Schatz" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p
mc/articles/PMC2409209). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (52):
20654–20655. Bibcode:2007PNAS..10420654M (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007PN
AS..10420654M). doi:10.1073/pnas.0710466104 (https://doi.org/10.1073%2Fpnas.0710466
104). ISSN 0027-8424 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0027-8424). PMC 2409209 (https://
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2409209). PMID 18093942 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nl
m.nih.gov/18093942).
3. "Professor George C. Schatz" (https://sites.northwestern.edu/schatz/people/george-schat
z/). The Schatz Group. August 3, 2023.
4. Mielke, Steven L.; Belytschko, Ted; Schatz, George C. (May 5, 2007). "Nanoscale Fraction
Mechanics". Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. 58: 185–209.
Bibcode:2007ARPC...58..185M (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ARPC...58..185M).
doi:10.1146/annurev.physchem.58.032806.104502 (https://doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev.phy
schem.58.032806.104502). PMID 17059367 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17059367).
5. "Google Scholar: George C. Schatz" (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XHtII_oAAA
AJ&hl=en). August 3, 2023.
6. Kelly, K. Lance; Coronado, Eduardo; Zhao, Lin Lin; Schatz, George C. (2003-01-01). "The
Optical Properties of Metal Nanoparticles: The Influence of Size, Shape, and Dielectric
Environment" (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jp026731y). The Journal of Physical
Chemistry B. 107 (3): 668–677. doi:10.1021/jp026731y (https://doi.org/10.1021%2Fjp02673
1y). ISSN 1520-6106 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1520-6106).

External links
Official home page at Northwestern University (http://www.chem.northwestern.edu/faculty/de
tails?assetID=1440)
Editorial profile at the Journal of Physical Chemistry home page (http://pubs.acs.org/journal
s/jpcafh/profiles.html)

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