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David
Statman
"everything
should be made as simple as possible...but not simpler." A.
Einstein
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David Statman received an AB from
Lafayette College in 1977 and a PhD from the State University of New
York at Stony Brook in 1982. For his doctoral dissertation he studied
polymer statics and dynamics using quasi-elastic light scattering.
From 1983 to 1985, Professor Statman was a R.A. Welch Postdoctoral
Fellow at the Picosecond and Quantum Radiation Laboratory of Texas
Tech University. There he studied the effects of solvent dynamics
on cis-trans isomerizations and on electron and proton transfer
reactions. From 1987 to 1993 Professor Statman worked as a Research
Chemist (1987 -1989) and as a Research Physicist (1989 -1993) at the
Nonlinear Optics Center of Excellence of the Air Force Phillips
Laboratory (now the Air Force Research Laboratory) in Albuquerque,
New Mexico. At the Air Force laboratory he was engaged in nonlinear
optics and laser science research. In the fall of 1993, Professor
Statman joined the Allegheny faculty with a joint appointment in both
the Chemistry and Physics Departments. He is a member of the Faculty
for the Twenty First Century (Project Kaleidascope). Professor
Statman has also taught chemistry at the University of Hartford and
Worcester Polytechnic Institute and physics at the University of New
Mexico. He has published over 40 research articles in scientific journals
and proceedings, with Allegheny students as co-authors on many. Professor
Statman spent the 2001-02 academic year as a Fulbright Scholar at
the Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. He continues to bring Allegheny
students to Budapest every summer as part of an ongoing research collaboration.
Most recently, Professor Statman traveled to Bangalore, India, where
he has establsihed a new collaboration. |
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