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John Ross

Title: Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, (b. 1926)

Education: B.S., 1948, Queens College; Ph.D., 1951, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Awards: National Academy of Science, 1976; Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics, American Chemical Society, 1992; Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University, 1992-93; National Medal of Science, 1999; Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2001; Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class, 2002; Theodore William Richards Medal, 2004 Physical Chemistry

Research Area: Physical Chemistry

Phone: 650-723-9203

E-mail: john.ross@stanford.edu

Principal Research Interests

We are interested in experimental and theoretical investigations in new approaches to the determination of complex reaction mechanisms; the formation of the thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of systems far from equilibrium; the chemical implementation of digital and parallel computers, and application of these studies to biological reaction mechanisms.

Representative Publications

1) "Spatial Structure Formation in Precipitation Processes," S. Mueller and J. Ross, J Phys Chem A, 107, 7997 (2003).

2) "New Approaches to the Deduction of Complex Reaction Mechanisms," J. Ross, Acc Chem Res, 36, 839-847 (2003).

3) "Mechanisms of Oscillatory Reactions Deduced from Bifurcation Diagrams," I. Schreiber and J. Ross, J Phys Chem A, 107, 9846-9859 (2003).

4) "Resonse experiments for nonlinear systems with application to reaction kinetics and genetics," M.O. Vlad, A. Arkin, and J. Ross, PNAS, 101, 7223-7228 (2004).

5) "Multiple Rate-Determining Steps for Non-ideal and Fractal Kinetics," M.O. Vlad, V.T. Popa, E. Segal, and J. Ross, Journal of Physical Chemistry (2005).

6) "Enhanced (hydrodynamic) transport induced by population growth in reaction diffusion systems with application to population genetics," M.O. Vlad, L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, and J. Ross, PNAS, 101, 10249-10253 (2004).