Brooks H. Pate is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United S ...

. He graduated from the

with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1987, and from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

with a Ph.D. in 1992. He was a NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at

NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical sci ...

(Gaithersburg, MD) from 1992 to 1993. He heads the Pate Research Group.

Awards

* 2016

William F. Meggers Award in Spectroscopy The William F. Meggers Award has been awarded annually since 1970 by the Optical Society (originally called the Optical Society of America) for outstanding contributions to spectroscopy. Recipients Source: See also * List of physics awards Thi ...

*2016

Herty Medal ThLocal Sectionof the American Chemical Society has awarded the Herty Medal since 1933 in honor of Charles Herty. The medallion is solid gold and is inscribed with the words "pro scientia et patria - Herty 1933." The Latin phrase translates roughly ...

* 2008 Fellow of the American Physical Society * 2001

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...

* 1999 Coblentz Award * 1998 Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar

Works

*"Distinguishing Tunneling Pathways for Two Chiral Conformer Pairs of 1,3-Propanediol from the Microwave Spectrum". Plusquellic DF, Lovas FJ, Pate BH, Neill JL, Muckle MT, Remijan AJ. ''J Phys Chem A''. October 13, 2009. *"Semiexperimental Equilibrium Structure for the C-6 Backbone of cis-1,3,5-Hexatriene; Structural Evidence for Greater pi-Electron Delocalization with Increasing Chain Length in Polyenes". Suenram RD, Pate BH, Lesarri A, Neill JL, Shipman S, Holmes RA, Leyden MC, Craig NC. ''J. Phys. Chem. A''. 113, 1864-1868 (2009). *"Conformational isomerization kinetics of pent-1-en-4-yne with 3,330 cm(-1) of internal energy measured by dynamic rotational spectroscopy". Dian BC, Brown GG, Douglass KO, Rees FS, Johns JE, Nair P, Suenram RD, Pate BH. ''PNAS''. 105, 12696-12700 (2008). *"Gas-phase conformational distributions for the 2-alkylalcohols 2-pentanol and 2-hexanol from microwave spectroscopy". Tubergen MJ, Conrad AR, Chavez RE, Hwang I, Suenram RD, Pajski JJ, Pate BH. ''J. Mol. Spec''. 251, 330-338 (2008). *"A broadband Fourier transform microwave spectrometer based on chirped pulse excitation". Brown GG, Dian BC, Douglass KO, Geyer SM, Shipman ST, Pate BH. ''Review of Scientific Instruments''. 79, 053103 (2008)

References

External links

"BH Pate"
''Google Scholar'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Pate, Brooks 21st-century American chemists Living people University of Virginia faculty University of Virginia alumni Princeton University alumni MacArthur Fellows Spectroscopists Year of birth missing (living people)