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RefNoEC/2015/56
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TitleMiller, William Hughes: certificate of election to the Royal Society
Date30 April 2015
DescriptionCertificate of Candidate for Election to the Foreign Membership
CitationProfessor William H Miller, Kenneth S. Pitzer Distinguished Professor Emeritus, and Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Professor Miller's papers over the last 45 years have essentially defined the field of theoretical chemical dynamics. His seminal contributions include a comprehensive semiclassical theory of atomic and molecular collisions, an elegant theory of electronically non-adiabatic processes in which the nuclear and electronic motions are treated on an equal footing, a highly accurate semiclassical "instanton" theory of deep quantum tunneling events, and the definitive exact quantum mechanical theory of chemical reaction rates. These fundamental developments are at the root of the agreement between theory and experiment that we are now accustomed to seeing in chemical reaction dynamics, and the basis of essentially all modern theoretical research in the area.
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