Background
David Chandler was born in New York City in 1944.
David Chandler was born in New York City in 1944.
He received his South.B. degree in chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966, and his Doctor of Philosophy in chemical Physics at Harvard in 1969.
He has published two books and over 200 scientific articles He is Bruce H. Mahan Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He began his academic career as an assistant professor in 1970 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, rising through the ranks to become a full professor in 1977.
Prior to joining the Berkeley faculty in 1986, Chandler spent two years as professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania.
Chandler"s primary area of research is statistical mechanics. With it, he has also created many of the basic techniques with which condensed matter chemical equilibrium and chemical dynamics are understood with molecular theory.
He provided the modern language and concepts for describing structure and dynamics of liquids, a series of contributions that has allowed quantitative and analytical treatments of simple and polyatomic fluids, of aqueous solutions and hydrophobic effects, and of polymeric melts and blends. He has also developed the methods by which rare but important events can be simulated on a computer, techniques that have culminated in Chandler’s development of a statistical physics of trajectory space.
This work has enabled his studies of systems far from equilibrium, including processes of self-assembly and the glass transition.
He was twice awarded a Miller Professorship at the University of California Berkeley. In 2016 he was named Miller Senior Fellow of the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science. He is the author of the textbook Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics.
Royal Society; National Academy of Sciences.
Doctoral degree