Mark Child Explained

Mark Sheard Child
Birth Date:	17 August 1937
Workplaces:	University of Oxford
Alma Mater:	Clare College, Cambridge
Thesis Title:	The vibrational spectra of electronically degenerate molecules
Thesis Url:	http://www.theses.com
Thesis Year:	1963
Doctoral Advisor:	H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins^[1]
Doctoral Students:	Peter Coveney^[2]
Awards:	Fellow of the Royal Society

Mark Sheard Child FRS (born 17 August 1937)^[3] is a British chemist, and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Education

Child attended Pocklington School from 1947 to 1955.^[4] 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.

Research

Child's research interests include semiclassical mechanics,^[5] Molecular collision theory,^[6] Rydberg states^{[7] [8] [9] [10]} and Quantum Level Structures at a Saddle point.^{[11] [12] [13] [14]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chemistry Tree - Mark S. Child Details.
2. DPhil. Peter V . Coveney. Semiclassical methods in scattering and spectroscopy. University of Oxford. 1985.
3. http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U10813 CHILD, Prof. Mark Sheard
4. Web site: 2021-06-16 . Professor Mark Child FRS (1947-1955) . 2023-01-17 . Old Pocklingtonians . en.
5. Book: Mark Child . Semiclassical mechanics with molecular applications . Clarendon Press . Oxford . 1991 . 978-0-19-855654-1 .
6. Book: Mark Child . Molecular collision theory . Dover Publications . New York . 1996 . 978-0-486-69437-5 .
7. Book: Mark Child . Theory of Molecular Rydberg States (Cambridge Molecular Science) . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, UK . 2011 . 978-0-521-76995-2 . Mark Child.
8. Child . M. S. . Mark Child. Jungen . C. . 10.1063/1.459355 . Quantum defect theory for asymmetric tops: Application to the Rydberg spectrum of H2O . The Journal of Chemical Physics . 93 . 11 . 7756 . 1990 . 1990JChPh..93.7756C .
9. Child . M. S. . Mark Child. The Rydberg states of H₂O . 10.1098/rsta.1997.0080 . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences . 355 . 1729 . 1623–1636. 1997 . 1997RSPTA.355.1623C . 93739122 .
10. Hiyama . M. . Child . M. S. . Mark Child. 10.1088/0953-4075/35/5/316 . Ab initio R-matrix/multichannel quantum defect theory study of nitric oxide . Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics . 35 . 5 . 1337 . 2002 . 2002JPhB...35.1337H . 250830242 .
11. Child . M. S. . Mark Child. Weston . T. . Tennyson . J. . 10.1080/00268979909482971 . Quantum monodromy in the spectrum of H2O and other systems: New insight into the level structure of quasi-linear molecules . Molecular Physics . 96 . 3 . 371 . 1999 . 1999MolPh..96..371C . 10.1.1.324.1149 .
12. Jacobson . M. P. . Child . M. S. . Mark Child. 10.1063/1.1330746 . Spectroscopic signatures of bond-breaking internal rotation. II. Rotation-vibration level structure and quantum monodromy in HCP . The Journal of Chemical Physics . 114 . 1 . 262 . 2001 . 2001JChPh.114..262J .
13. Book: Child . M. S. . Mark Child. Quantum Monodromyand Molecular Spectroscopy . 10.1002/9780470175422.ch2 . Advances in Chemical Physics . 136 . 39–02 . 2007 . 9780470175422 .
14. Cooper . C. D. . Child . M. S. . Mark Child. 10.1039/B502772C . Quantum level structures at a Fermi resonance with angular momentum: Classical periodic orbits, catastrophe maps and quantum monodromy . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics . 7 . 14 . 2731–2739 . 2005 . 16189587. 2005PCCP....7.2731C .