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54
Citations
11978
World Ranking
12510
National Ranking
3331

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1982 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1979 - Irving Langmuir Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 1972 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1962 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)

Overview

Donald S. McClure was affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their academic career involved contributions to scientific research and engagement with the academic community.

Throughout their career, McClure was recognized by several professional and scholarly organizations. They were appointed a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1962, designated a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1972, and received the Irving Langmuir Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 1979. Later, in 1982, McClure became a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Specific details regarding publications, research topics, frequent co-authors, and main fields or subfields of study were not documented in the available data.

Best Publications

  • Triplet‐Singlet Transitions in Organic Molecules. Lifetime Measurements of the Triplet State

    Donald S. McClure

  • Optical spectra of transition-metal ions in corundum

    Donald S. Mcclure

  • Spin‐Orbit Interaction in Aromatic Molecules

    Donald S. McClure

  • The distribution of transition metal cations in spinels

    Donald S. McClure

  • Optical Spectra of Hydrated Ions of the Transition Metals

    Owen G. Holmes;Donald S. McClure

  • Survey of the Spectra of the Divalent Rare‐Earth Ions in Cubic Crystals

    Donald S. McClure;Zoltan J. Kiss

  • Electronic Spectra of Molecules and Ions in Crystals Part II. Spectra of Ions in Crystals: Part II. Spectra of Ions in Crystals

    Donald S. McClure

  • Ultraviolet Spectra of Stilbene, p‐Monohalogen Stilbenes, and Azobenzene and the trans to cis Photoisomerization Process

    Rudolph H. Dyck;Donald S. McClure

  • Excited States of the Naphthalene Molecule. I. Symmetry Properties of the First Two Excited Singlet States

    Donald S. McClure

  • Optical Spectra of Exchange Coupled Mn ++ Ion Pairs in ZnS:MnS

    Donald S. McClure

  • Absolute Quantum Efficiencies of Luminescence of Organic Molecules in Solid Solution

    Earl H. Gilmore;George E. Gibson;Donald S. McClure

  • Comparison of the Crystal Fields and Optical Spectra of Cr2O3 and Ruby

    Donald S. McClure

  • Excitons trapped at impurity centers in highly ionic crystals.

    Donald S. McClure;Christian Pedrini

  • Two-photon spectroscopy of MgO:Ni2+

    C. Campochiaro;D. S. Mcclure;P. Rabinowitz;S. Dougal

  • ENERGY TRANSFER IN MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND IN DOUBLE MOLECULES

    Donald S. McClure

  • Selection Rules for Singlet‐Triplet Perturbations in Polyatomic Molecules

    Donald S. McClure

  • Electronic Spectra of Molecules and Ions in Crystals Part I. Molecular Crystals

    Donald S. McClure

  • Electronic and Vibrational States of Azulene

    Jerome W. Sidman;Donald S. McClure

  • Excited Triplet States of Some Polyatomic Molecules. I

    Donald S. McClure

  • Photoreduction of acetophenone and substituted acetophenones

    Nien-Chu. Yang;Donald S. McClure;Steven. Murov;John J. Houser

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward I. Solomon
Edward I. Solomon Stanford University
Stephen A. Payne
Stephen A. Payne Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Klaus Petermann
Klaus Petermann Technical University of Berlin
Harden M. McConnell
Harden M. McConnell Stanford University
Luis Seijo
Luis Seijo Autonomous University of Madrid
Michael Ottolenghi
Michael Ottolenghi Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Enrico Clementi
Enrico Clementi International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science

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