Martin Quack

Martin Quack (born 22 July 1948) is a German

physical chemist and spectroscopist; he is a professor Martin Quack
at ETH Zürich.[1][2]

Life and work

Martin Quack started his chemistry studies at the
Technical University of Darmstadt in 1966 and
continued as fellow of the German Academic Martin Quack (2014)
Exchange Service (DAAD) between 1969 and 1970 at Born July 22, 1948
the University of Grenoble and then he obtained his Darmstadt
diploma as chemist in 1971 at the University of Nationality German
Göttingen.[1] In 1972 he moved to the École
Education Technical University of Darmstadt,
polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, where he
University of Grenoble, University
obtained his doctoral degree in 1975 working with
of Göttingen, Ecole Polytechnique
Jürgen Troe on the statistical theory of unimolecular
Fédérale de Lausanne (Dr es
and complex forming bimolecular reactions.[3] In 1973
sces techn)
he attended a quantum chemistry summer school
Scientific career
organized by Per-Olov Löwdin in Uppsala. From 1976
to 1977 he stayed as Max Kade fellow with William H. Fields physical chemistry,
Miller at UC Berkeley. Subsequently, he moved to molecular physics, spectroscopy,
Göttingen and finished his habilitation there in 1978. kinetics
He was appointed full professor at the University of Institutions University of Bonn
Bonn in 1982. Since 1983 he has been professor of ETH Zurich
physical chemistry at ETH Zürich, where he served as
head of the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry in
1986/1987, 1991/1992 and 2006/2007.

In 2005 he was Miller Visiting Research Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2011 and
2012 he served as President (1. Vorsitzender) of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry.

His research group investigates (employing high-resolution infrared spectroscopy, multiphoton excitation
and time-resolved spectroscopy) the quantum dynamics and kinetics of molecules both theoretically and
experimentally, [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] with special emphasis on the dynamics of tunneling and parity
violation (due to the electroweak interaction of the standard model) in chiral molecules. [11] [12] [13] [14]
Most notably their theoretical work has shown that the effect of parity violation is between one and two
orders of magnitude larger than anticipated from earlier calculations (as reviewed in [12][13][15]) and can
be detected, in principle, as an energy difference between the ground states of enantiomers of chiral
molecules by precision experiments of molecular physics, using the fundamentally new kinetic process of
the time evolution of parity in isolated molecules.[13][14][15][16]) He is an editor (with Frédéric Merkt) of
the "Handbook of High Resolution Spectroscopy". [17]

Awards and honours

1982 Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein prize of the Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry
1984 Klung (Wilhelmy Weberbank) Award of FU Berlin
1987 Bourke Lecturer of Royal Society of Chemistry
1988 Hinshelwood Lecturer and Christensen Fellow, Oxford
1991 Otto Bayer Award
2002 Paracelsus Award, Swiss Chemical Society
2006 Erwin Schrödinger Gold Medal, Innsbruck
2009 Honorary Doctorate, University of Göttingen
2012 August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal (German Chemical Society, GDCh)
2012 QSCP medal of the CMOA (Centre de Mécanique Ondulatoire Appliquée, Paris)
He has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1990), Member of the Academy of
Sciences Leopoldina (1998), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1999), the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017) as well as a corresponding member of Göttingen
Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2014). From 2002 to 2011 he had been member of the National
Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2014 he was elected as member of the
presidium of the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina.[2]

See also
Richard N. Zare
Martin A. Suhm
Roman M. Balabin
Renato Zenobi

References
1. Richard R. Ernst; Tucker Carrington; Georg Seyfang; Frédéric Merkt (2013). "Editorial:
Special issue of Molecular Physics dedicated to Martin Quack on the occasion of his 65th
birthday". Molecular Physics. 111 (14–15): 1939–1963. Bibcode:2013MolPh.111.1939. (http
s://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MolPh.111.1939.). doi:10.1080/00268976.2013.816092
(https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00268976.2013.816092). S2CID 220377047 (https://api.semanti
cscholar.org/CorpusID:220377047).
2. "Curriculum Vitae (Academy of Sciences Leopoldina)" (http://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/r
edaktion/Mitglieder/CV_Quack_Martin_EN.pdf) (PDF).
3. Martin Quack, Jürgen Troe (1981). "Current aspects of unimolecular reactions". International
Reviews in Physical Chemistry. 1 (2): 97–147. Bibcode:1981IRPC....1...97Q (https://ui.adsa
bs.harvard.edu/abs/1981IRPC....1...97Q). doi:10.1080/01442358109353318 (https://doi.org/
10.1080%2F01442358109353318).
 4. Martin Quack (1977). "Detailed symmetry selection rules for reactive collisions". Molecular
Physics. 34 (2): 477–504. Bibcode:1977MolPh..34..477Q (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/ab
s/1977MolPh..34..477Q). doi:10.1080/00268977700101861 (https://doi.org/10.1080%2F002
68977700101861).
5. Martin Quack (1978). "Theory of unimolecular reactions induced by monochromatic infrared
radiation". J. Chem. Phys. 69 (3): 1282–1307. Bibcode:1978JChPh..69.1282Q (https://ui.ad
sabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978JChPh..69.1282Q). doi:10.1063/1.436667 (https://doi.org/10.106
3%2F1.436667).
6. Martin Quack (1989). "Infrared laser chemistry and the dynamics of molecular multiphoton
excitation". Infrared Physics. 29 (2): 441–466. Bibcode:1989InfPh..29..441Q (https://ui.adsa
bs.harvard.edu/abs/1989InfPh..29..441Q). doi:10.1016/0020-0891(89)90087-0 (https://doi.or
g/10.1016%2F0020-0891%2889%2990087-0).
7. Martin Quack (1990). "Spectra and dynamics of coupled vibrations in polyatomic
molecules". Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. 41: 839–874.
Bibcode:1990ARPC...41..839Q (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990ARPC...41..839Q).
doi:10.1146/annurev.pc.41.100190.004203 (https://doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev.pc.41.1001
90.004203).
8. Martin Quack (1993). "Molecular quantum dynamics from high resolution spectroscopy and
laser chemistry". J. Mol. Struct. 292 (1–3): 171–195. Bibcode:1993JMoSt.292..171Q (https://
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993JMoSt.292..171Q). doi:10.1016/0022-2860(93)80099-H (htt
ps://doi.org/10.1016%2F0022-2860%2893%2980099-H).
9. Martin Quack (1995). "Infrared laser chemistry". Infrared Phys. Technol. 36 (1): 365–380.
Bibcode:1995InPhT..36..365Q (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995InPhT..36..365Q).
doi:10.1016/1350-4495(94)00102-Q (https://doi.org/10.1016%2F1350-4495%2894%290010
2-Q).
10. Martin Quack (1995). "Molecular infrared spectra and molecular motion". J. Mol. Struct. 347:
245–266. Bibcode:1995JMoSt.347..245Q (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995JMoSt.34
7..245Q). doi:10.1016/0022-2860(95)08549-B (https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0022-2860%289
5%2908549-B).
11. Martin Quack (1989). "Structure and dynamics of chiral molecules". Angewandte Chemie
International Edition in English. 28 (5): 571–586. doi:10.1002/anie.198905711 (https://doi.or
g/10.1002%2Fanie.198905711).
12. Martin Quack (2002). "How important is parity violation for molecular and biomolecular
chirality?". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 41 (24): 4618–4630.
doi:10.1002/anie.200290005 (https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fanie.200290005). PMID 12481315
(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12481315).
13. Martin Quack; Jürgen Stohner; Martin Willeke (2008). "High-resolution spectroscopic studies
and theory of parity violation in chiral molecules". Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 59: 741–769.
Bibcode:2008ARPC...59..741Q (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ARPC...59..741Q).
doi:10.1146/annurev.physchem.58.032806.104511 (https://doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev.phy
schem.58.032806.104511). PMID 18173376 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18173376).
14. Peter Dietiker; Edouard Miloglyadov; Martin Quack; Andreas Schneider; Georg Seyfang
(2015). "Infrared laser induced population transfer and parity selection in 14NH3: A proof of
principle experiment towards detecting parity violation in chiral molecules". J. Chem. Phys.
143 (24): 244305. Bibcode:2015JChPh.143x4305D (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015
JChPh.143x4305D). doi:10.1063/1.4936912 (https://doi.org/10.1063%2F1.4936912).
PMID 26723669 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26723669).
15. Quack, Martin; Merkt, Frederic (2011). Handbook of High-resolution Spectroscopy.
doi:10.1002/9780470749593 (https://doi.org/10.1002%2F9780470749593).
ISBN 9780470066539.
16. Sieghard Albert; Irina Bolotova; Ziqiu Chen; Csaba Fábri; L'ubos Horný; Martin Quack;
Georg Seyfang; Daniel Zindel (2016). "High resolution GHz and THz (FTIR) spectroscopy
and theory of parity violation and tunneling for 1,2-dithiine (C4H4S2) as a candidate for
measuring the parity violating energy difference between enantiomers of chiral molecules"
(https://doi.org/10.1039%2FC6CP01493C). Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18 (31): 21976–
21993. Bibcode:2016PCCP...1821976A (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016PCCP...182
1976A). doi:10.1039/C6CP01493C (https://doi.org/10.1039%2FC6CP01493C).
hdl:20.500.11850/119511 (https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850%2F119511).
PMID 27439591 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27439591).
17. Martin Quack, Frédéric Merkt, ed. (2011). Handbook of High Resolution Spectroscopy.
doi:10.1002/9780470749593 (https://doi.org/10.1002%2F9780470749593).
ISBN 9780470066539.

External links
Webpage at ETH Zürich (http://www.ir.ethz.ch/)
BBAW (https://www.bbaw.de/die-akademie/bbaw-mitglieder/mitglied-martin-quack)
Leopoldina webpage (https://www.leopoldina.org/en/members/list-of-members/list-of-memb
ers/member/Member/show/martin-quack/)

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