Mark Sheard Child | |
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Born | 17 August 1937 |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
Alma mater | Clare College, Cambridge |
Thesis | The vibrational spectra of electronically degenerate molecules (1963) |
Doctoral advisor | H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins |
Doctoral students | Adam Kirrander Christopher D. Cooper Paul A. J. Sherratt Richard T. Lawton A.J. Duckett Josyf C. Mychaleckyj A.V. Chambers, Christopher J. Ahston M.R. Gover Paul M. Hunt Trevor Rayment John William Thomson Roger Blakeney Mallion Peter Coveney, Colin Batchelor |
Notable awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
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Mark Sheard Child FRS (born 17 August 1937) is a British chemist, and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
He attended Pocklington School from 1947 to 1955. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge in 1963 with a thesis on The vibrational spectra of electronically degenerate molecules.
Child's research interests include semiclassical mechanics, Molecular collision theory,Rydberg states and Quantum Level Structures at a Saddle point.