John Isaiah Brauman (born September 7, 1937) is an American chemist.
Biography
John Brauman was born in Pittsburgh on September 7, 1937.
Brauman graduated from
Taylor Allderdice High School
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in 1955. He obtained a bachelor's degree in 1959 from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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and a Ph.D. from
University of California
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at
Berkeley
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in 1963.
He is married to Sharon K Brauman, also a chemist. Their daughter,
Kate Brauman is the lead scientist for the Global Water Initiative at the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment.
On October 29, 2003
George W. Bush
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awarded the National Medal of Science to John Brauman, who at that time was the J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Chemistry at
Stanford University
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.
[ His research there concerns how molecules react and the factors that determine the rates and products of chemical reactions. The main areas of research involve the spectroscopy, photochemistry, reaction dynamics, and reaction mechanisms of ions in the gas phase.][
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Awards and honors
*1973 ACS Award in pure chemistry
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*1976 Harrison Howe Award, and awards from American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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, National Academy of Sciences
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, and Dean's Award for distinguished teaching
*1978-1979 He was a Guggenheim fellow
*1986 ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
*1986 ACS James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry
*1986 R.C. Fuson Award
*1991 He became an honorary fellow of California Academy of Sciences
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*2001 Awarded the National Academy of Sciences Award in chemical sciences.[
*2002 Awarded the ]National Medal of Science
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and the Linus Pauling Award
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*2003 Willard Gibbs Award
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* 2017, ]Charles Lathrop Parsons Award
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for Public Service, American Chemical Society
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Works
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References
External links
John Isaiah Brauman
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20th-century American chemists
1937 births
Living people
People associated with the California Academy of Sciences
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences