Mark Ratner Explained

Mark A. Ratner
Birth Date:December 8, 1942
Birth Place:Cleveland, Ohio
Nationality:American
Field:molecular electronics
Work Institution:Northwestern University
Doctoral Advisor:G. Ludwig Hofacker, Jan Linderberg
Known For:unimolecular rectifier

Mark A. Ratner (born December 8, 1942) is an American chemist and professor emeritus at Northwestern University whose work focuses on the interplay between molecular structure and molecular properties.[1] He is widely credited as the "father of molecular-scale electronics" thanks to his groundbreaking work with Arieh Aviram in 1974 that first envisioned how electronic circuit elements might be constructed from single molecules and how these circuits might behave.[2]

Education

Ratner graduated from Harvard University with an undergraduate degree in chemistry and obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry from Northwestern University.[3]

Academic career

Ratner taught chemistry at New York University from 1970 until 1974. In 1974, he and Arieh Aviram proposed the first unimolecular rectifier,[4] thus becoming pioneers in molecular electronics.[5] During more than 45 years in the chemistry department at Northwestern University, Ratner was the inaugural Lawrence B. Dumas Distinguished University Professor, the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in Chemistry, associate and interim dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Co-director of ISEN (Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern), recipient of the Northwestern Alumni Merit Award, and an eleven-time member of the Faculty Teaching Honor Roll.[6] [7] [8] [9]

Ratner's major areas of research include nonlinear optical response properties of molecules; electron transfer and molecular electronics; quantum dynamics and relaxation in condensed phase; mean-field models for extended systems, including proteins and molecular assemblies; photonics in nanoscale systems; excitons in molecule-based photovoltaics and hybrid classical/quantum representations. He has published more than 1,000 papers in these fields[1] [10] [11] through international collaborations, particularly in Denmark, Israel and the Netherlands.[12]

Ratner is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, and the National Academy of Sciences.[13] [14] His honors and awards include the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology,[15] the Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics,[16] the Willard J. Gibbs Award,[17] the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry,[18] and honorary ScD degrees from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Copenhagen. He also serves on the Governing Board for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.[19]

Selected works

References

  1. Web site: Mark A. Ratner – Ratner Group. 2021-05-27. sites.northwestern.edu.
  2. Book: Ratner. Mark A.. Nanotechnology: A Gentle Introduction to the Next Big Idea. Ratner. Daniel. 2003. Prentice Hall Professional. 978-0-13-101400-8. en.
  3. Web site: Mark A. Ratner Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN). 2021-05-27. isen.northwestern.edu. en.
  4. March 2015. Molecular electronics under the microscope. Nature Chemistry. en. 7. 3. 181. 10.1038/nchem.2200. 25698315 . 2015NatCh...7..181. . 1755-4349. free.
  5. Aviram, A and Ratner, M.A.; “Molecular Rectifier” Chemical Physics Letters 29: 277 (1974)
  6. Web site: Ratner Named to First Dumas Professorship at Northwestern: Northwestern University News. 2021-05-27. www.northwestern.edu. en.
  7. Web site: Mark Ratner Named Interim Dean of Weinberg College. 2021-05-27. news.northwestern.edu. en-US.
  8. Web site: nanoHUB.org - Members: View: Mark Ratner. 2021-05-27. nanohub.org.
  9. Web site: Mark A. Ratner InformIT. 2021-05-27. www.informit.com.
  10. Web site: ResearchGate. Mark A. Ratner. ResearchGate.
  11. Web site: Mark A Ratner. 2021-05-27. scholar.google.com.
  12. Web site: Mark A Ratner. 2021-05-27. SOFI Northwestern. en.
  13. http://www.pnas.org/content/101/19/7213.full Biography of Mark A. Ratner
  14. Web site: CSHL Oral History Collection. 2016. Mark Ratner. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  15. Web site: 2001 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology. 2021-05-27. foresight.org.
  16. Web site: Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics. 2021-05-27. American Chemical Society. en.
  17. Web site: Willard Gibbs Award. 2021-05-27. chicagoacs.org.
  18. Web site: Peter Debye Award In Physical Chemistry: Mark A. Ratner. 2021-05-27. cen.acs.org.
  19. Web site: Governing Board. 2016-03-30. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

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