Background
Kaplan, Michael Daniel was born on June 29, 1946 in Kishinev, Moldova, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Daniel Michael and Bluma Daniel Kaplan. came to the United States, 1991.
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Cooperative Phenomena in Jahn―Teller Crystals (Modern Inorganic Chemistry)
(This book by Kaplan and Vekhter brings together the molec...)
This book by Kaplan and Vekhter brings together the molecular world of the chemist with the condensed matter world of the physicist. Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, chemists in the West devoted lit to relationships between molecular electronic structure and tle attention solid-state vibronic phenomena. Treating quantum mechanical problems wherein the adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer approximation fails was done by "brute force. " With bigger and better computers available in the West, molecular orbital calculations were done on observed and conceived static structures with little concern for any cooperativity of vibrational behavior that might connect these states. While it had long been understood in the West that situations do occur in which different static structures are found for molecules that have identical or nearly identical electronic structures, little attention had been paid to understanding the vibrational states that could connect such structures. It was easier to calculate the electronic structure observed with several possible distortions than to focus on ways to couple electronic and vibrational behavior. In the former Soviet Union, computational power was not as acces sible as in the West. Much greater attention, therefore, was devoted to conserving computational time by considering fundamental ways to han dle the vibrational connectivity between degenerate or nearly degenerate electronic states.
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Michael Daniel Kaplan
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Michael Daniel Kaplan, American Physics and chemistry researcher, educator. Recipient Inventor of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics medal Ministry Instrumentation Design and Automation, 1988; grantee MIDA, Institute Electronics Wave Research and Mfg.Corp. Member American Association of University Professors, American Chemical Society.
Education
Master of Science in Physics, Kishinev U., 1969; Doctor of Philosophy in Solid State Physics, Leningrad (Russia) U., 1976; Dr Science in Solid State Physics, Moscow U., 1985.
Career
Research associate, All-Union Institute Non-Destructive Evaluation, Kishinev, 1970-1976; senior researcher, All-Union Institute Non-Destructive Evaluation, Kishinev, 1976-1980; senior researcher Institute Chemistry, Academy Sciences Moldova, Kishinev, 1980-1985; leading researcher, Academy Sciences Moldova, Kishinev, 1985-1991; visiting professor phyics department, Boston University, 1992-1993; lecturer chemistry Department, University Massachusetts, Lowell, 1992-1993; lecturer physics department, Boston University, 1993; visiting research professor, Boston University, since 1993; adjunct associate professor of chemistry department, Simmons College, Boston, 1993-1997; associate professor department chemistry, Simmons College, Boston, since 1997. Invited lecturer; consultant Aspen Licensing Corporation, West Palm Beach, Florida, 1992, The BOC (British Oxygen Corporation) Group, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1996.
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Cooperative Phenomena in Jahn―Teller Crystals (Modern Inorganic Chemistry)
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Cooperative Phenomena in Jahn―Teller Crystals (Modern Inorganic Chemistry)
Membership
Member American Association of University Professors, American Chemical Society.
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Married Pauline Boris Rosenhaupt, April 5, 1968. 1 child, Daniel.
Awards
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Recipient Inventor of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics medal Ministry Instrumentation Design and Automation, 1988. Grantee MIDA, Institute Electronics Wave Research and Mfg.Corp.Recipient Inventor of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics medal Ministry Instrumentation Design and Automation, 1988. Grantee MIDA, Institute Electronics Wave Research and Mfg.Corp.