Jack Dunitz#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 183 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Jack Dunitz passed away September 12, 2021.
Positions Held
- 1990 retired
- 1957 - 1990 Professor of Chemical Crystallography, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland (Full Professor since 1964)
- 1956 - 1957 Senior Research Fellow, Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, The Royal Institution, London
- 1954 - 1955 Visiting Scientist, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
- 1948 - 1951, 1953 - 1954 A. A. Noyes Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
- 1956 - 1948, 1951 - 1953 Research Fellow, Chemical Crystallography Laboratory, Oxford University
Fields of Scholarship
- Mathematical aspects of structure
- Phase transformations in solids and solid-state chemical reactions
- Use of crystal structure analysis as tool for studying chemical problems
- Virtual crystallography
- Problems of polymorphism
- Crystal structure prediction
- Analysis of weak intermolecular interactions in condensed phases
Honours and Awards
- Honorary D. Sc., Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), 1990
- Honorary Ph. D, Weizmann Institute of Science, 1992
- Honorary D. Sc., Glasgow University, 1999
- Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1968
- Fellow of the Royal Society of London, 1974
- Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, 1979
- Member of Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, 1979
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1981
- Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1988
- Member of Academia Europaea, 1989
- Honorary Member, Swiss Society of Crystallography, 1990
- Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 1991
- Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997.
- Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society, 1997
- Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2000.
- Honorary Member, Swiss Chemical Society, 2004.
- Centenary Lecture and Medal, Chemical Society, London, 1977
- Havinga Lecture and Medal, University of Leiden, 1980
- Tishler Award, Harvard University, 1985
- Paracelsus Prize, Swiss Chemical Society, 1986
- Bijvoet Lecture and Medal, University of Utrecht, 1989
- Gregori Aminoff Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1990
- Buerger Award, American Crystallographic Association, 1991
- Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society, 1997.
