Laurence A. Nafie
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| Born | 9 August 1945 Michigan, United States |
| 🏡 Residence | Florida, United States |
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| 👩 Spouse(s) | Rina K Dukor |
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| 🌐 Website | http://thecollege.syr.edu/people/faculty/pages/chem/Nafie-Laurence.html |
Laurence A. Nafie. (born August 9, 1945) is
Biography[edit]
Nafie received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1973, studying resonance Raman scattering with Warner L. Peticolas; from 1973 to 1975 he was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Southern California with Philip J. Stephens, where he confirmed the discovery of vibrational circular dichroism (VCD).
In 1975 he joined the Chemistry faculty at Syracuse University to establish a research program in VCD and Raman optical activity (ROA).
Research[edit]
In 1978 he carried out the first measurements of Fourier transform vibrational circular dichroism, now the basis of all commercial vibrational circular dichroism instrumentation. In 1978 he was named an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and in 1981 he won the Coblentz Award. In 1988 he first measured scattered circular polarization (SCP) ROA that is now used in all commercially available Raman optical activity spectrometers. In 1989 he predicted the dual circular polarization (DCP) forms of ROA that were confirmed in 1991 and 1994. From 1983 to 1997 he developed the nuclear velocity perturbation (NVP) theory of VCD that has now been programed as a new approach to vibrational circular dichroism calculations and ab inito molecular dynamics (AIMD) and vibrational transition current density (TCD) maps.
In 1996, he co-founded BioTools, Inc.with Rina Dukor to market instrumentation and services for vibrational spectroscopy including VCD and ROA.
In 1996 he published the theory of resonance ROA and its predictions were confirmed experimentally in 1998. In 2010 he became Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, and in 2011 he published a comprehensive book, Vibrational Optical Activity: Principles and Applications, published by John Wiley & Sons.
Academic positions[edit]
| Years | Academic position |
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| 2010 - present | Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Syracuse University |
| 2010, June | Guest Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China |
| 2000 - 2010 | Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Syracuse University |
| 1993 - 1994 | Associate Dean for Academic and Fiscal Planning, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University |
| 1984 - 2000 | Chair, Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University |
| 1982 - 2000 | Professor of Chemistry, Syracuse University |
| 1979 - 1982 | Associate Professor of Chemistry, Syracuse University |
| 1975 - 1979 | Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Syracuse University |
| 1973 - 1975 | Postdoctoral Associate, University of Southern California |
| 1969 - 1971 | Member US Army, Science and Engineering Assistant, Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland |
| 1968 | Summer Intern, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore, California |
| 1967 - 1969, 1971 - 1972 | National Defense Education Act Fellow, University of Oregon |
Awards, honors, and professional offices:[edit]
- Chirality Medal Winner, awarded by the Societa Chimica Italiana, 2019
- Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award of the Spectroscopic Society of Pittsburgh, 2013
- Honorary Member of the Coblentz Society, 2012
- Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 2010 to present
- Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, 2008
- Distinguished Service Award of the Society of Applied Spectroscopy ], 2007
- Co-Chair, Third International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS-3), 2005.
- President, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, 2003
- Bomem Michelson Award for Outstanding Achievements in Molecular Spectroscopy, March 2001
- Founding Editor, Biospectroscopy, A journal published by John Wiley and Sons, 1994 to 2003
- Associate Dean for Academic and Fiscal Planning, College of Arts and Sciences, Syr., N.Y., 1994-1995
- President, Coblentz Society , 1993-1995
- Coblentz Society Governing Board Member, 1984 - 1988
- Coblentz Award for Outstanding Contributions to Molecular Spectroscopy for a scientist under the age of 35 years, 1981
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1978)
Publications[edit]
He wrote more than 300 articles, papers and books, including Vibrational Optical Activity: Principles and Applications , (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, 2011).
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External links[edit]
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