Robert J. LeRoy
Robert J. Le Roy | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 30, 1943 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | 10 August 2018 (aged 74) Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Chemist |
| Known for | LeRoy radius |
| Scientific career | |
| Influences | Richard Bernstein, Richard Zare, Dudley Herschbach, |
| Influenced | Jeremy Hutson |
| Website | Department of Chemistry, LeRoy |
Robert J. Le Roy (September 30, 1943 – August 10, 2018) was one of Canada's leading chemists who held the distinguished title of "University Professor" at the University of Waterloo.
Career[]
His work on the Morse/Long-range potential with his former student Nike Dattani of Oxford University was referred to as a "landmark in diatomic spectral analysis" in.[1] In the landmark work, the C3 value for atomic lithium was determined to a higher-precision than any atom's previously measured oscillator strength, by an order of magnitude. This lithium oscillator strength is related to the radiative lifetime of atomic lithium and is used as a benchmark for atomic clocks and measurements of fundamental constants.[2]
Awards and honors[]
- 1994 Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry from the Royal Society of Canada[3]
- 1995 J. Heyrovsky Honorary Medal for Merit in the Chemical Sciences from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
References[]
- ^ Tang, Li-Yan; Z-C. Yan, T-Y Shi, J. Mitroy; Shi, Ting-Yun; Mitroy, J. (30 November 2011). "Third-order perturbation theory for van der Waals interaction coefficients". Physical Review A. 84 (5): 052502. Bibcode:2011PhRvA..84e2502T. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.84.052502.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- ^ Mitroy, Jim; Mariana S. Safranova, Charles W. Clark (4 October 2010). "Theory and applications of atomic and ionic polarizabilities". Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 43 (20): 202001. arXiv:1004.3567. Bibcode:2010JPhB...43t2001M. doi:10.1088/0953-4075/43/20/202001.
- ^ "In memory of Robert Le Roy: Family establishes undergraduate chemistry scholarship". University of Waterloo. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
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Categories:
- 1943 births
- 2018 deaths
- People from Ottawa
- University of Toronto alumni
- University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
- Canadian chemists
- Computational chemists