:R. J. Dwayne Miller
{{Short description|Canadian chemist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = R. J. Dwayne Miller
| image = R. J. Dwayne Miller.jpg
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| alt = Portrait of R. J. Dwayne Miller
| caption = R. J. Dwayne Miller in 2016
| birth_name = Robert John Dwayne Miller
| birth_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| fields = {{plainlist |
| workplaces = {{plainlist |
- University of Rochester
- University of Toronto
- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter}}
| alma_mater = {{plainlist |
| thesis_title = Electronic excited state transport and trapping in disordered systems
| thesis_url = https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1077969
| thesis_year = 1983
| doctoral_advisor = Michael D. Fayer
| academic_advisors = Bryan R. Henry
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = {{plainlist |
- Ultrafast laser spectroscopy
- Coherent multidimensional spectroscopy
- Femtosecond electron diffraction }}
| awards = {{plainlist |
- NATO Science Fellowship (1983)
- NSF Young Investigator Award (1987){{cite web | url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8657629&HistoricalAwards=false | title=Presidential Young Investigator Award | access-date=5 October 2017 | website=National Science Foundation}}
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1988)
- Sloan Research Fellowship (1988){{cite web | url=https://sloan.org/past-fellows | title=Past Fellows | access-date=5 October 2017 | website=Alfred P. Sloan Foundation}}
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1992){{cite web | url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/r-j-dwayne-miller/ | title=Fellows | access-date=5 October 2017 | website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation}}
- Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry (1997)
- FRSC (1998){{cite web | url=https://rsc-src.ca/en/search-fellows/ | title=Search Fellows | access-date=5 October 2017 | website=Royal Society of Canada}}
- John C. Polanyi Award (2000){{cite web | url=http://www.cheminst.ca/awards/csc-awards/john-c-polanyi-award | title=John C. Polanyi Award | access-date=5 October 2017 | website=Chemical Institute of Canada}}
- Humboldt Award (2002)
- Canada Research Chair in Femtoscience (2002)
- Chemical Institute of Canada Medal (2009){{cite web | url=http://www.cheminst.ca/awards/cic-awards/cic-medal | title=CIC Medal | access-date=5 October 2017 | website=Chemical Institute of Canada}}
- McNeil Medal (2011){{cite web | url=https://rsc-src.ca/en/past-award-winners#McNeil | title=Past Award Winners | access-date=5 October 2017 | website=Royal Society of Canada}}
- E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy (2015){{cite web | url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/national/bytopic/e-bright-wilson-award-in-spectroscopy.html | title=E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy | access-date=5 October 2017 | website=American Chemical Society}}
- Centenary Prize (2016){{cite web | url=http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/CentenaryPrizes/2016-Winner-Miller.asp | title=Centenary Prize 2016 Winner | access-date=5 October 2017 | website=Royal Society of Chemistry}}
- FRSC (2016)
- EPS-QUEOD Prize for Laser Science and Applications (2018){{cite web | url=http://qeod.epsdivisions.org/QEOD%20Prizes/research-in-laser-science-and-applications-prizes | title=Research in Laser Science and Applications Prizes | access-date=8 July 2018 | website = European Physical Society Quantum Electronics and Optics Division}}
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| website = {{URL|http://lphys.chem.utoronto.ca/}}
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R. J. Dwayne Miller {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC|MCIC|FRS}} is a Canadian chemist and a professor at the University of Toronto. His focus is in physical chemistry and biophysics. He is most widely known for his work in ultrafast laser science, time-resolved spectroscopy, and
the development of new femtosecond electron sources. His research has enabled real-time observation of atomic motions in materials during chemical processes and has shed light on the structure-function correlation that underlies biology.{{cite web | url=https://www.cifar.ca/profiles/r-j-dwayne-miller/ | title=R. J. Dwayne Miller | access-date=5 October 2017 | website=Canadian Institute for Advanced Research}}
Early life and education
Miller was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba.{{cite news | url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Winnipeg-chemist-earns-prestigious-British-science-award-378588676.html | title=Winnipeg chemist earns prestigious British science award | access-date=5 October 2017| newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press | date=2016-05-09 | last1=Paul | first1=Alexandra }} In 1978, he received a B.Sc. in chemistry and immunology at the University of Manitoba where Bryan R. Henry was his advisor. He completed his Ph.D. in chemistry at Stanford University in 1983 under the supervision of Michael D. Fayer. His thesis work focused on energy transport in model systems of photosynthesis and is titled Part I, Electronic excited state transport and trapping in disordered systems; Part II, Laser induced ultrasonics.
Academic career
Following graduation, Miller gained a faculty position at the University of Rochester and immediately took a 12-month leave to do postdoctoral research in solid state physics as a NATO science fellow at the Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Physique (renamed to Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique in 2011{{cite web | url=https://www-liphy.ujf-grenoble.fr/History-of-LiPhy?lang=en/ | title=History of LiPhy | access-date=6 October 2017 | website=Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique}}) at the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France under the direction of Hans Peter Trommsdorff and Robert Romenstain.{{cite web | url=http://lphys.chem.utoronto.ca/members/resources/dwayne-miller-cv | title=R. J. Dwayne Miller | access-date=5 October 2017 | website=Miller Group}}
He returned to University of Rochester in 1984 as an assistant professor of chemistry. He was promoted to associate professor in 1988 and then full professor of chemistry and optics in 1992. In 1995, he moved back to Canada and relocated his research group to the departments of chemistry and physics at the University of Toronto. In 2006, he was appointed as a University Professor {{cite web | url=http://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards/uprofessors/complete/dmiller.htm/ | title=Professor RJ Dwayne Miller | access-date=5 October 2017 | website=University of Toronto}} and later as a Distinguished Faculty Research Chair.
From 2010-2014, R. J. D. Miller was the director of the Max Planck Group, Centre for Free Electron Laser Science/DESY, University of Hamburg. From 2014-2020, he was the co-founding director of Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, Germany.{{cite web |title=Prof. Dr. R. J. Dwayne Miller |url=http://www.mpsd.mpg.de/person/32916/7437/ |access-date=5 October 2017 |website=Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter}}
In 2023, he was inducted as a fellow of the Royal Society{{Cite web |title=Dwayne Miller |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/dwayne-miller-36204/ |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=royalsociety.org}} and has been a fellow of Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society of Chemistry since 1999 and 2016, respectively. He is also a member of the Chemical Institute of Canada, Canadian Association of Physicists, American Physical Society, and Optical Society of America.
Science outreach
Beyond his scientific work, Miller is dedicated to the promotion of science education through outreach to school children. He founded and is a board member of Science Rendezvous, an annual science festival that aims to expose general public to science and technology.{{cite web | url=http://www.sciencerendezvous.ca/ | title=Prof. Dr. R. J. Dwayne Miller | access-date=5 October 2017 | website=Science Rendezvous}}
Bibliography
=Selected papers=
- Duan HG, Jha A, Chen L, Tiwari V, Cogdell RJ, Ashraf K, Prokhorenko VI, Thorwart M, Miller RJD. Quantum coherent energy transport in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex at low temperature. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 119 (49) :e2212630119, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1063/4.0000159
- Zhipeng Huang; Meghanad Kayanattil; Stuart A. Hayes; R. J. Dwayne Miller. Picosecond infrared laser driven sample delivery for simultaneous liquid-phase and gas-phase electron diffraction studies. STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, 9 :054301, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1063/4.0000159
- Gourab Chatterjee, Ajay Jha, Alejandro Blanco-Gonzalez, Vandana Tiwari, Madushanka Manathunga, Hong-Guang Duan, Friedjof Tellkamp, Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Nicolas Ferré, Jyotishman Dasgupta, Massimo Olivucci and R. J. Dwayne Miller. Torsionally broken symmetry assists infrared excitation of biomimetic charge-coupled nuclear motions in the electronic ground state. CHEMICAL SCIENCE, 13 :9392-9400, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SC02133A
- Chiwon Lee, Alexander Marx, Günther H. Kassier & R. J. Dwayne Miller. Disentangling surface atomic motions from surface field effects in ultrafast low-energy electron diffraction. COMMUNICATIONS MATERIALS, 3 (10), 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-022-00231-9
- Zhang, M., Zhang, S., Xiong, Y., Zhang, H., Ischenko, A., Vendrell, O., Dong, X., Mu, X., Centurion, M., Xu, H., Miller, RJD., Li, Z.. Quantum state tomography of molecules by ultrafast diffraction. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 12 :5441, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25770-6
- P. Mehrabi, R. Bücker, G. Bourenkov, H.M. Ginn, D. von Stetten, H.M. Müller-Werkmeister, A. Kuo, T. Morizumi, B.T. Eger, W.-L. Ou, S. Oghbaey, A. Sarracini, J.E. Besaw, O. Pare´-Labrosse, S. Meier11, H. Schikora, F. Tellkamp, A. Marx, D.A. Sherrell, D. Ax. Serial femtosecond and serial synchrotron crystallography can yield data of equivalent quality: A systematic comparison. SCIENCE ADVANCES, 7 (12) :eabf1380, 2021. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abf1380
- Michiel de Kock, Sana Azim, Gunther Kassier, and R. J. Dwayne Miller. Determining the radial distribution function of water using electron scattering: A key to solution phase chemistry. THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 153 :194504, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0024127
- Hong-Guang Duan, Ajay Jha, Xin Li4, Vandana Tiwari, Hanyang Ye, Pabitra K. Nayak, Xiao-Lei Zhu4, Zheng Li, Todd J. Martinez, Michael Thorwart, R. J. Dwayne Miller. Intermolecular vibrations mediate ultrafast singlet fission. SCIENCE ADVANCES, 6 (38) :eabb0052, 2020. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/38/eabb0052
- Cheng, S., Chatterjee, G., Tellkamp, F., Lang, T., Ruehl, A., Hartl, I., Miller, R.J.D.. Compact Ho:YLF-pumped ZnGeP2-based optical parametric amplifiers tunable in the molecular fingerprint regime. OPTICS LETTERS, 45 (8) :2255–2258, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.389535
- Krawczyk, K.M., Sarracini, A., Green, P.B., Hasham, M., Tang, K., Paré-Labrosse, O., Voznyy, O., Wilson, M.W.B., Miller, R.J.D.. Anisotropic, Nonthermal Lattice Disordering Observed in Photoexcited PbS Quantum Dots. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 125 (40) :22120-22132, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c07064
=Books=
- {{cite book |title=Surface Electron Transfer Processes |first1=R. J. Dwayne |last1=Miller |first2=George L. |last2=McLendon |first3=Arthur J. |last3=Nozik |first4=Wolfgang |last4=Schmickler |first5=Frank |last5=Willig |publisher=Wiley VCH |year=1995 |isbn=978-0471185536}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://lphys.chem.utoronto.ca/ Miller group at the University of Toronto]
- [https://www.mpsd.mpg.de/forschung/atomare-aufloesung Miller group (former) at MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg]
- [https://www.sciencerendezvous.ca/ Science Rendezvous]
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