"A special "Festschrift" issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry is honoring the research career of Ming Chang Lin, Robert W. Woodruff Emeritus Professor.

The issue was co-edited by Joel Bowman, Michael Heaven and Yuan-Pern Lee,
Department of Applied Chemistry & Institute of Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University and features leading reachers in the field of chemical kinetics.

The cover below shows representative examples of Professor Lin’s achievements in kinetics, spectroscopy and computational chemistry.  The upper part of the figure illustrates an experimental apparatus used to study the reactions of vibrationally excited species (in this case, excited O3) using pulsed laser initiation. The middle section of the figure shows detection of the CH3 radical using resonantly enhanced multi-photon ionization, a technique pioneered by Professor Lin and co-workers.  The lower part of the figure shows the key mechanism for prompt NO formation during hydrocarbon combustion. Professor Lin discovered this mechanism using high-level quantum chemistry calculations.

Dr. Lin's Background:

B. S., Taiwan Normal University, 1959; Ph. D., University of Ottawa, 1965; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Ottawa, Canada, 1965-1967; Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cornell University, 1967-1969.

Hillebrand Prize, Chemical Society of Washington, 1975; Physical Sciences Award, Washington Academy of Sciences, 1976; Pure Science Award, Sigma Xi, NRL Chapter, 1978; Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award, 1979; John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1982-1983; Alexander von Humbolt Award, Bonn, Germany, 1982; Taiwanese-American Foundation Prize for Science & Technology, 1989; Robert Dexter Conrad Award for Scientific Accomplishment (U.S. Navy, 1998); member, National Academy, Taiwan (Academia Sinica).