Name Graham Fleming | ||
 | ||
Education University of London (1974), University of Bristol Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | ||
Graham fleming
Graham R. Fleming (born 1949) is a British born chemist, currently serving as professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Contents
- Graham fleming
- Graham fleming celtic connections 2013
- Career
- Significant publications
- Awards and honours
- References
Graham fleming celtic connections 2013
Career
Fleming received a B.S. (with honours) degree in Chemistry from the University of Bristol (1971) and a PhD degree in Physical Chemistry from the University College London (1974). He spent the next five years as a postdoctoral researcher at three institutions: California Institute of Technology (1974–1975); University of Melbourne (1975–1976); and the Royal Institution in the United Kingdom (1976–1979).
In 1979 Fleming received his first academic appointment, as assistant professor at University of Chicago (1979–1983). In 1983 he was appointed associate professor, and in 1985 he was made a full professor (A. H. Compton Distinguished Services Professor). He filled that position until 1997, when he accepted a dual position at the University of California, Berkeley as professor in Chemistry and as the first director of the Physical Bioscience Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; in 2002 he was given the chair of Melvin Calvin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UCB. In April 2009, Fleming was appointed UCB's vice-chancellor for research, responsible for administering all federal, state and private research funds received by the campus and overseeing all campus museums and research units. He resigned under protest from this position following accusations of sexual harassment by a previously fired UCB employee. Many UCB faculty members questioned the fairness of UCB's investigation, which provided no mechanism for appeal.
Fields of study pursued by Fleming and his study groups include condensed-phase chemical and biological dynamics, photosynthesis operations, quantum dynamics, quantum information in condensed phases, photochemical reactions, electronic processes at nanoscale, and development of nonlinear optical spectroscopes.
He was the first to apply two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy to photosynthetic systems. He got particularly known for the work published in 2007 claiming evidence for quantum coherence in photosynthetic energy transfer, an explanation of the high efficiency of photosynthesis. This interpretation of the observed spectra has since been proven incorrect.