Philip Bunker
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Philip R. Bunker | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Citizenship | Canada |
| Alma mater | Oxford University |
| Awards | Fellow of IUPAC |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical chemistry, molecular spectroscopy |
| Institutions | National Research Council of Canada |
| Doctoral advisor | Christopher Longuet-Higgins |
Philip R. Bunker is a Canadian scientist and author, known for his work in theoretical chemistry and molecular spectroscopy. He is currently Researcher Emeritus at the National Research Council of Canada and a guest scientist at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society.
Education and early work
Philip Bunker received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from King's College in London, England in 1962 and earned a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry in 1965, advised by Christopher Longuet-Higgins. He spent his career at the National Research Council of Canada, beginning as a postdoctoral fellow in 1965 with Gerhard Herzberg, and eventually rising to the position of Principal Research Officer there in 1997.
Important contributions
Philip Bunker has published 180 refereed journal articles and 17 book chapters focused on the use of fundamental quantum mechanics to predict and interpret the spectral properties of polyatomic molecules due to their combined rotational, vibrational, electronic and nuclear states and symmetries. He is a well-known expert in the relationship between molecular symmetry and spectral patterns.[1] [2] Together with Per Jensen, a theoretical chemist at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Bunker has written two books on theoretical chemistry and molecular spectroscopy; Fundamentals of Molecular Spectroscopy (2005) and Molecular Symmetry and Spectroscopy (2012).[3][4] He is also well known for his work in the quantitative description of non-adiabatic effects in quantum molecular dynamics.[5]
Awards and honors
Bunker received the Senior Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Stiftung (1995), the Ionnos Marcus Marci Medal of the Czech Spectroscopy Society (2002), and the 2002 Sir Harold Thompson Memorial Award sponsored by Spectrochimica Acta. He is a fellow of IUPAC. During the course of his career he has delivered over 400 invited lectures.[6]
Selected presentations
- “Near Symmetry in our Universe: The Origin of Life and the Preponderance of Matter over Antimatter,” Plenary lecture at “63rd OSU International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy,” The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A., June 18 2008.
- “The Planck constant and its units,” The 35th Symposium on Chemical Physics at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, November 3 2019.
References
- ↑ Gu, J.P.; Hirsch, G.; Buenker, R.J.; Osmann, G.; Bunker, P.R.; Jensen, P. (2000). "A theoretical study of the absorption spectrum of singlet CH2". J. Mol. Struct. 5. 517 (1–3): 247–264. Bibcode:2000JMoSt.517..247G. doi:10.1016/S0022-2860(99)00256-2.
- ↑ Xu, Yunjie; Jäger, Wolfgang (May 2011). "Philip R. Bunker and A. Robert W. McKellar Special Issue". Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy. 267 (1–2): 1–2. Bibcode:2011JMoSp.267....1X. doi:10.1016/j.jms.2011.04.021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ↑ "Phyical and Theoretical Chemistry: Per Jensen, Prof. Ph.D." Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ↑ Pibel, Charles D. (1999). "Book Review: Molecular Symmetry and Spectroscopy, 2nd Edition By P. R. Bunker (National Research Council, Canada) and P. Jensen (Bergische UniversitätGesamthochschule Wuppertal). NRC Press: Ottawa, Canada. 1998. xix + 747 pp. $64.00. ISBN 0-660-17519-3". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121 (45): 10669. doi:10.1021/ja9857716.
- ↑ Comeau, D.C.; Shavitt, I.; Jensen, Per; Bunker, P.R. (1989). "An Ab Initio Determination of the Potential Energy Surfaces and the Rotation-Vibration Energy Levels of Methylene in the Lowest Triplet and Singlet States and the Singlet-Triplet Splitting". Journal of Chemical Physics. 90 (11): 6491–6500. Bibcode:1989JChPh..90.6491C. doi:10.1063/1.456315.
- ↑ "Theory and Simulation Group of the National Research Council of Canada". Retrieved 30 July 2021.
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