John Isaiah Brauman (born September 7, 1937) is an American chemist.
John Brauman was born in Pittsburgh on September 7, 1937. He obtained a bachelor's degree in 1959 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley in 1963.
On October 29, 2003 George W. Bush named John Brauman the J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University. His research there concerns how molecules react and the factors that determine the rates and products of chemical reactions. The main areas of research involve the spectroscopy, photochemistry, reaction dynamics, and reaction mechanisms of ions in the gas phase.
Awards and honors
1973 ACS Award in pure chemistry
1976 Harrison Howe Award, and awards from American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, and Dean's Award for distinguished teaching
1978-1979 He was a Guggenheim fellow
1986 ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
1986 ACS James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry
1986 R.C. Fuson Award
1991 He became an honorary fellow of California Academy of Sciences
2001 Awarded the National Academy of Sciences Award in chemical sciences.
2002 Awarded the National Medal of Science and the Linus Pauling Award.
2003 Willard Gibbs Award.
As of 1993, he had 9 works in print:
E.A. Brinkman; S. Berger; J. Marks; J.I. Brauman (1993). "Molecular Rotation and the Observation of Dipole-Bound States of Anions". 99. J. Chem. Phys.: 7586–7594.
S.L. Craig; J.I. Brauman (1997). "Perturbed Equilibria and Statistical Energy Redistribution in a Gas Phase SN2 Reaction". 276. Science: 1536–1538.
B.C. Römer; J.I. Brauman (1997). "Electron Photodetachment Spectroscopy of (E)- and (Z)-Propionaldehyde Enolate Anions. Electron Affinities of the Stereoisomers of Propionaldehyde Enolate Radicals". 119. J. Am. Chem. Soc: 2054–2055.
M.L. Chabinyc; S.L. Craig; C.K. Regan; J.I. Brauman (1998). "Gas-Phase Ionic Reactions: Dynamics and Mechanism of Nucleophilic Displacements". 279. Science: 1882–1886.
M.L. Chabinyc; J.I. Brauman (1998). "Acidity, Basicity, and the Stability of Hydrogen Bonds: Complexes of RO- + HCF3". 120. J. Am. Chem. Soc.: 10863–10870.
S.L. Craig; M. Zhong; J.I. Brauman (1999). "Translational Energy Dependence and Potential Energy Surfaces of Gas Phase SN2 and Addition-Elimination Reactions". 121. J. Am. Chem. Soc.: 11790–11797.
S.L. Craig; J.I. Brauman (1999). "Intramolecular Microsolvation of SN2 Transition States". 121. J. Am. Chem. Soc.: 6690–6699.
M.L. Chabinyc; J.I. Brauman (2000). "Hydrogen Bonded Complexes of Methanol and Acetylides. Structure and Energy Correlations". 122. J. Am. Chem. Soc.,: 5371–5378.
G.A. Janaway; J.I. Brauman (2000). "Direct Observation of Spin Forbidden Proton Transfer Reactions: 3NO- + HA ->1HNO + A". 104. J. Phys. Chem. A: 1795–1798.
