Background
Field, Richard Jeffrey was born on October 26, 1941 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Jeffrey Hazard and Edna Catherine (Hawkins) Field.
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True deterministic chaos is characterized by unpredictable, apparently random motion in a dynamical system completely described by a deterministic dynamic law, usually a nonlinear differential equation, with no stochastic component. The inability to predict future behaviour of a chaotic system occurs because trajectories evolving from arbitrarily close initial conditions diverge. Chaos is universal as it may arise in any system governed by one of a class of quite common, suitable nonlinear dynamic laws. This book discusses both the experimental observation and theoretical interpretation of chaos in chemical and biochemical systems. Examples are drawn from the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, surface reactions, electrochemical reactions, enzyme reactions, and periodically perturbed oscillating systems.
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Field, Richard Jeffrey was born on October 26, 1941 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Jeffrey Hazard and Edna Catherine (Hawkins) Field.
Bachelor of Science, U. Massachusetts, 1963; Master of Science, Holy Cross College, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Rhode Island, 1968.
Research associate, visiting assistant professor, U. Oregon, Eugene, 1968-1974;
senior research chemist, Carnegie-Mellon U., Pittsburgh, 1974-1975;
assistant professor, then associate professor department chemistry, U. Montana, Missoula, 1975-1983;
professor of chemistry, U. Montana, Missoula, since 1984;
department chairman chemistry, U. Montana, Missoula, 1990-1995. Visiting professor U. Notre Dame, Indiana, 1980, U. Würzburg, Germany, 1985-1986. Visiting scientist, National Center Atmospheric Research, 1995-1996.
Referee various journals, granting agys., since 1970. Member National Science Foundation panel on graduate fellowships, Washington, 1980-1983. Assistant director Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research program in Montana, National Science Foundation, 1990.
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Member American Chemical Society (tour Speaker 1983, 85, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, chair Montana section 1979, editorial advisory board Journal Physical Chemistry 1988-1994, International Journal Chemical Kin. since 1995).
Married Judith Lauchaire, September 5, 1966. Children: Elijah, Sara.