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Nationality
  
United States

Fields
  
Physical Chemist

Name
  
Marsha Lester


Marsha I. Lester httpswwwchemupennedusiteswwwchemupenned

Institutions
  
University of Pennsylvania

Alma mater
  
Rutgers University Columbia University

Education
  
Columbia University (1981)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Interview with marsha i lester the newly appointed editor of the journal of chemical physics


Marsha I. Lester is an American physical chemist.

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Biography

Marsha Lester earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1981.

Currently she works as a professor at University of Pennsylvania from which she has received the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Award in the Natural Sciences and is chair of the Department of Chemistry. Her research group at the University of Pennsylvania was behind the development of open shell complexes. She is also well known as the editor of the The Journal of Chemical Physics.

Previously, Lester was the chair of the Division of Laser Science and worked for American Chemical Society and the American Physical Society. Later on, she was the chair of the DOE Council for Chemical and Biochemical Sciences.

Awards
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • American Physical Society
  • Alfred P. Sloan Research fellowship
  • Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher–Scholar Award
  • Bourke lectureship from Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Garvan-Olin Medal, 2014
  • Marsha i lester and c david sherrill talk about the future of j chem phys


    References

    Marsha I. Lester Wikipedia