Professor William Carl Lineberger
Condon Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder
Lecture (4:00 pm, University of Nevada campus)
Transition State Spectroscopy in the Time and Frequency Domains
Banquet (7:00 pm, Galena Forest Inn)
with after-dinner remarks by Dr. Lineberger
WILLIAM CARL LINEBERGER was born in Hamlet, North Carolina, in 1939. He obtained Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1961, 1963, and 1965, respectively. After leaving Georgia Tech, he became a research physicist in Atmospheric Physics at the U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland. In 1968, Lineberger joined the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) at the University of Colorado, Boulder, as a research associate. He joined the permanent faculty in 1970, rapidly becoming a Fellow of JILA and a full Professor at CU. He is now the E.U. Condon Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. mong the many distinctions and awards Dr. Lineberger has received are membership in the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, the Herbert P. Broida Prize in Chemical Physics, J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Fellow, Bomem-Michelson Prize, the William F. Meggers Prize of the Optical Society of America, Phi Beta Kappa National Lecturer, the Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy, and the Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics. Lineberger has held visiting professorships at Stanford University and the University of Chicago, and has been member of editorial boards for the Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Reviews, Chemical Physics Letters, and Chemical Physics, Lineberger has held numerous distinguished visiting lectureships, and has also been active on national and international science advisory boards, including for the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the National Research Council, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Physical Society. Professor Lineberger is a pioneering researcher in the area of spectroscopy of negative ions. He has published over 170 articles in scholarly journals and books. His recent work involves state- of-the-art experiments in the femtosecond time domain, in which chemical reactions are monitored at the molecular level in real time.