Background
Field, Robert Warren was born on June 13, 1944 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Son of Edmund and Kay Field.
Field, Robert Warren was born on June 13, 1944 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Son of Edmund and Kay Field.
Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, Amherst College, 1965. Doctor of Science (honorary), Amherst College, 1997. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1971.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1972.
Robert West. Field is the Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been a professor since 1974. He was a postdoc with Herbert Broida at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a physical chemist, specializing in spectroscopy of small molecules in the gas phase.
He performed the first microwave-optical and optical-optical double resonance experiments on small molecules, and invented the Stimulated Emission Pumping (Software Engineering Professionals , or "PUMP and DUMP") spectroscopic method.
He is also particularly known for studies of the molecules acetylene (C2H2) and calcium monofluoride (CaF). His active research group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology includes about eight graduate students and postdocs working on experimental, theoretical and computational physical chemistry of small molecules in the gas phase.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Physical Society (H.P. Broida prize 1980, E.K. Plyler prize 1988), Optical Society of America (E. Lippincott award 1990, W. Meggers award, 1996). Member American Chemical Society (Nobel Laureate Signature award to Y. Chen, co-preceptor with J.L. Kinsey 1990).
Son of Edmund Kay Huebsch (Field).