Kenneth Pitzer
American academic administrator (1914–1997)
Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer (January 6, 1914 – December 26, 1997) was an American physical and theoretical chemist who served as the third president of Rice University from 1961 to 1968 and as the sixth president of Stanford University from 1968 to 1970.2
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Born Jan 6, 1914, died Dec 26, 1997.1
About
He was described as "one of the most influential physical chemists of his era" whose work "spanned almost all of the important fields of physical chemistry: thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, molecular structure, quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, chemical bonding, relativistic chemical effects, properties of concentrated aqueous salt solutions, kinetics, and conformational analysis."
From Wikipedia’s article on Kenneth Pitzer, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
- Stanford UniversityChair 1968 to 19703
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- 1WikidataKenneth Pitzer on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaKenneth Pitzer on Wikipedia
- 3WikidataStanford University, Chair