Education
University of California, Berkeley. Saint Olaf College.
University of California, Berkeley. Saint Olaf College.
Flygare is credited with "outstanding contributions to the understanding of molecular electronic structure". He invented a highly sensitive microwave spectrometer. He also developed a new method based on the molecular Zeeman effect for measurements of molecular quadrupole moments and magnetic susceptibility anisotropies.
The University of Illinois called him "one of the most creative and dynamic physical chemists in the world." The National Academies Press called him "a great physical chemist".
Guggenheim Fellowships in 1972 and 1978 Flygare graduated from Saint Olaf College in 1958 and received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961. He became a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois in 1961 and stayed in that position until his premature death at 44.
He died of the Lou Gehrig disease.
National Academy of Sciences]
Flygare was a professor of chemistry at Illinois, a member of the National Academy of Sciences.