Америкалық ғалым, теориялық химияның көрнекті өкілі Стюарт Алан Райс

American researcher and professor of chemistry

Stuart Alan Rice (born January 6, 1932) is an American theoretical chemist and physical chemist. He is well known as a theoretical chemist who also does experimental research, having spent much of his career working in multiple areas of physical chemistry. He is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. During his tenure at the University of Chicago, Rice has trained more than 100 Ph. D. students and postdoctoral researchers. He received the National Medal of Science in 1999. received his bachelor's degree in 1952 from Brooklyn College, and earned his master's and doctorate from Harvard University in 1954 and 1955, respectively. He was almost unable to attend graduate school due to contracting tuberculosis, but was cured of the disease through an experimental treatment of isoniazid and streptomycin. and has served as editor for the journals Chemical Physics Letters and Advances in Chemical Physics, and co authored several physical chemistry textbooks with Stephen Berry and John Ross.

Stuart Rice began his scientific career as a high school student and published on this work. He completed his doctoral dissertation under Paul Doty, contributing to the then emerging field of DNA research; He is a Fellow of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. In 1970 Rice was awarded the Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the nation’s oldest prize for undergraduate teaching, a highly esteemed faculty award at The University of Chicago. With over 100 doctoral students to his credit, Stuart Rice has had a great impact on the field of physical chemistry simply through the number of research scientists he has trained. Theoretical chemist David Tannor, who is the Hermann Mayer Professorial Chair in the department of chemical physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, did his post doc work with Stuart Rice and David W. Oxtoby at the University of Chicago.

Rice is also famous on campus for eating lunch almost every weekday at the university's Quadrangle Club restaurant (a faculty club), where he has dined over 9,000 times. Rice is known to sit at the head of the Chemistry table, not because he is the most senior member of the department, but because he is very tall. Rice was married to Marian Coopersmith from 1952 until her death in 1994.