Mark Sheard Child | |
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Born | 17 August 1937 |
Alma mater | Clare College, Cambridge |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
Thesis | The vibrational spectra of electronically degenerate molecules (1963) |
Doctoral advisor | H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins[1] |
Doctoral students | Peter Coveney[2] |
Website | research |
Mark Sheard Child FRS (born 17 August 1937)[3] is a British chemist, and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Child attended Pocklington School from 1947 to 1955.[4] He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge in 1963 with a thesis on The vibrational spectra of electronically degenerate molecules.
Child's research interests include semiclassical mechanics,[5] Molecular collision theory,[6] Rydberg states[7][8][9][10] and Quantum Level Structures at a Saddle point.[11][12][13][14]