Mark Child
{{Short description|British chemist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2015}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Mark Sheard Child
| image =
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1937|08|17|df=yes}}
| birth_place =
| death_date =
| death_place =
| resting_place =
| resting_place_coordinates =
| residence =
| citizenship =
| nationality =
| fields =
| 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{{cite web|url=http://academictree.org/chemistry/peopleinfo.php?pid=67442|title=Chemistry Tree - Mark S. Child Details}}
| academic_advisors =
| doctoral_students = Peter Coveney{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|first=Peter V |last=Coveney|title=Semiclassical methods in scattering and spectroscopy|publisher=University of Oxford|date=1985|url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?docId=oxfaleph016235950}}
| notable_students =
| author_abbrev_bot =
| author_abbrev_zoo =
| influences =
| influenced =
| awards = Fellow of the Royal Society
| signature =
| signature_alt =
| website = {{URL|research.chem.ox.ac.uk/mark-child.aspx}}
| footnotes =
| spouse =
}}Mark Sheard Child FRS (born 17 August 1937)[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U10813 CHILD, Prof. Mark Sheard], Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 is a British chemist, and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Education
Child attended Pocklington School from 1947 to 1955.{{Cite web |date=2021-06-16 |title=Professor Mark Child FRS (1947-1955) |url=https://www.oldpocklingtonians.com/news/eminent-ops/62/62-Professor-Mark-Child-FRS-1947- |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=Old Pocklingtonians |language=en}} 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,{{cite book |author=Mark Child |title=Semiclassical mechanics with molecular applications |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-19-855654-1 }} Molecular collision theory,{{cite book |author=Mark Child |title=Molecular collision theory |publisher=Dover Publications |location=New York |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-486-69437-5 }} Rydberg states{{cite book |author=Mark Child |title=Theory of Molecular Rydberg States (Cambridge Molecular Science) |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-521-76995-2 |author-link=Mark Child}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Child | first1 = M. S. | author-link = Mark Child| last2 = Jungen | first2 = C. | doi = 10.1063/1.459355 | title = Quantum defect theory for asymmetric tops: Application to the Rydberg spectrum of H2O | journal = The Journal of Chemical Physics | volume = 93 | issue = 11 | pages = 7756 | year = 1990 |bibcode = 1990JChPh..93.7756C }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Child | first1 = M. S. | author-link = Mark Child| title = The Rydberg states of H2O | doi = 10.1098/rsta.1997.0080 | journal = Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences | volume = 355 | issue = 1729 | pages = 1623–1636| year = 1997 |bibcode = 1997RSPTA.355.1623C | s2cid = 93739122 }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Hiyama | first1 = M. | last2 = Child | first2 = M. S. | author-link2 = Mark Child| doi = 10.1088/0953-4075/35/5/316 | title = Ab initio R-matrix/multichannel quantum defect theory study of nitric oxide | journal = Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | volume = 35 | issue = 5 | pages = 1337 | year = 2002 | bibcode = 2002JPhB...35.1337H | s2cid = 250830242 }} and Quantum Level Structures at a Saddle point.{{Cite journal | last1 = Child | first1 = M. S. | author-link1 = Mark Child| last2 = Weston | first2 = T. | last3 = Tennyson | first3 = J. | doi = 10.1080/00268979909482971 | title = Quantum monodromy in the spectrum of H2O and other systems: New insight into the level structure of quasi-linear molecules | journal = Molecular Physics | volume = 96 | issue = 3 | pages = 371 | year = 1999 | bibcode = 1999MolPh..96..371C | citeseerx = 10.1.1.324.1149 }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Jacobson | first1 = M. P. | last2 = Child | first2 = M. S. | author-link2 = Mark Child| doi = 10.1063/1.1330746 | title = Spectroscopic signatures of bond-breaking internal rotation. II. Rotation-vibration level structure and quantum monodromy in HCP | journal = The Journal of Chemical Physics | volume = 114 | issue = 1 | pages = 262 | year = 2001 |bibcode = 2001JChPh.114..262J }}{{Cite book | last1 = Child | first1 = M. S. | author-link1 = Mark Child| chapter = Quantum Monodromyand Molecular Spectroscopy | doi = 10.1002/9780470175422.ch2 | title = Advances in Chemical Physics | volume = 136 | pages = 39–02 | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780470175422 }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Cooper | first1 = C. D. | last2 = Child | first2 = M. S. | author-link2 = Mark Child| doi = 10.1039/B502772C | title = Quantum level structures at a Fermi resonance with angular momentum: Classical periodic orbits, catastrophe maps and quantum monodromy | journal = Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics | volume = 7 | issue = 14 | pages = 2731–2739 | year = 2005 | pmid = 16189587|bibcode = 2005PCCP....7.2731C }}
References
{{reflist}}
{{FRS 1989}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Child, Mark Sheard}}
Category:People educated at Pocklington School
Category:Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge
Category:Fellows of St Edmund Hall, Oxford