Education

B.A. Rice University, 1977
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 1981
Postdoctoral, Stanford University, 1981-83
ORCID 0000-0001-9985-8178

About

I was born on the east coast and spent my early years zig-zagging in a westerly direction, finishing high school on the Texas gulf coast. I got my B. A. from Rice University in Houston, spending three very enjoyable years in Phil Brooks' Molecular Beam Lab there. After a brief stint in the Thermal Physics lab at Dow Chemical, I migrated on to graduate school at Berkeley, completing a Ph.D. with Yuan T. Lee in 1981. I learned how to play with lasers during a postdoc stay in the Zare lab at Stanford, then joined the chemistry faculty at SUNY Stony Brook in 1983. In March 1995 the Anderson group packed our bags (and two moving vans) and hauled the whole lab to the U of Utah.

At various times I have also spent extended periods at the Institute for Molecular Science (Okazaki) and Genesis Research Institute (Tokyo) in Japan, the Physics Departments of the University of Freiburg and University of Köln, Germany, and L.U.R.E. at the University of Paris in Orsay. I enjoy nordic and alpine skiing, mountain biking, hiking, camping, and most other outdoor activities.