Benjamin J. Whitaker

J Benjamin C Whitaker is Professor of Chemical Physics in the School of Chemistry at the University of Leeds.^[1]

Whitaker was educated at University College School, London and the University of Sussex (B.Sc. in chemical physics, 1978) where he also completed his doctorate on laser induced emission spectroscopy under the supervision of Professor Tony McCaffery (D.Phil., 1981). He is mainly known for work in molecular reaction dynamics and photofragment-ion imaging. He is also associated with some of the early chemical applications of the web with Henry Rzepa.

Selected publications

Whitaker, Benjamin J (ed.) (2003), Imaging in Molecular Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 810590 

Tsubouchi, M; Whitaker, BJ; Wang, L; Kohguchi, H; Suzuki, T (2001), "Photoelectron imaging on time-dependent molecular alignment created by a femtosecond laser pulse", Phys. Rev. Lett., 86: 4500–4503, Bibcode:2001PhRvL..86.4500T, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4500 

Hall, G; Whitaker, BJ (1994), "Laser-induced grating spectroscopy", J. Chem. Soc. - Faraday Trans., 90: 1–16, doi:10.1039/FT9949000001 

Suits, AG; Bontuyan, LS; Houston, PL; Whitaker, BJ (1992), "Differential cross-sections for state-selected products by direct imaging - Ar+NO", J. Chem. Phys., 96: 8618–8620, Bibcode:1992JChPh..96.8618S, doi:10.1063/1.462265 

McCaffery, AJ; Proctor, MJ; Whitaker, BJ (1986), "Rotational energy transfer - polarization and scaling", Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., 37: 223–244, Bibcode:1986ARPC...37..223M, doi:10.1146/annurev.pc.37.100186.001255 

Whitaker, BJ; Brechignac, P (1983), "A new fitting law for rotational energy-transfer", Chem. Phys. Lett., 95: 407–412, Bibcode:1983CPL....95..407W, doi:10.1016/0009-2614(83)80583-1 

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