Martin Quack#
| Membership Number: | 5418 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ir.ETHz.CH |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1351-8584 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1983 to now Full Professor(Ordinarius) for Physical Chemistry ( teaching to 2013 ) at ETH Zurich (from 2014 Professor (Emeritus) and leader of research group for Molecular Kinetics and Spectroscopy, with ERC Advanced Grant)
- 1982 - 1983 Full Professor (C4) University of Bonn
- 1978 -1982 Private docent and professor (C2 ) University of Göttingen
- 1976 - 1977 Max Kade Fellow University of California Berkeley
- 1975 - 1976 Research and Teaching assistant University of Göttingen
- 1972 - 1975 Research and Teaching assistant Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne (EPFL)
Fields of Scholarship
- Physical chemistry
- High resolution molecular spectroscopy
- Molecular kinetics
- Laser chemistry
- Symmetries in physics and chemistry
- Molecular chirality
- Parity violation
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Elected Corresponding Member of the Academy Athens
- 2017 Elected foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2014 – Elected corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, Göttingen
- 2012 August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmünze of the GDCh (German Chemical Society)
- 2012 QSCP medal of the CMOA (Centre de Mécanique Ondulatoire Appliquée, Paris)
- 2009 Dr. rer. nat. honoris causa University of Göttingen
- 2009 Bomem-Michelson Award of the Coblentz Society (Pittcon Chicago)
- 2006 Erwin Schrödinger Gold Medal (of SASP and Innsbruck University)
- 2002 Paracelsus Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society
- 1999 – Elected member of the Berlin-Brandenburg (formerly Prussian) Academy of Sciences
- 1998 – Elected member of the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
- 1991 Otto Bayer Prize
- 1990 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 1987 Bourke Lecturer and medal (Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain)
- 1988 Hinshelwood Lecturer (Oxford University) and Christensen Fellow of St. Catherine’s College(Oxford)
- 1984 Otto Klung prize of the Freie Universität Berlin
- 1982 Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein prize of the Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie
