John Ross
John Ross · Science & Medicine
Physical chemist known for chemical kinetics and nonlinear dynamics
1926, Vienna, Austria — 2017, Stanford, California, USA
Austria · USA
John Ross is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physical chemist known for chemical kinetics and nonlinear dynamics
Ross was a physical chemist at MIT and then Stanford whose work spanned chemical kinetics, molecular-beam scattering, nonequilibrium thermodynamics and nonlinear chemical dynamics, including the analysis of oscillating reactions and methods to deduce reaction mechanisms from data. He received the National Medal of Science in 1999. He was Jewish and had fled Austria after the Nazi annexation.
Verify and go deeper with these external references.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
This page is published in seven languages from an English source. The translations are reviewed, but a mistake can still slip through. If you spot one on this profile — a wrong word, a lost date, a sentence that says something the English does not — please tell us.
Physical chemist known for chemical kinetics and nonlinear dynamics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Similar Contributors
Sidney Benson
B. S. Rabinovitch
William Gelbart
Alexander Pines
Benjamin Widom
