Richard B. Bernstein

Research.com Recognitions

• 1989 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his development and use of the technique of molecular beams, which have played a significant role in shaping the field of modern chemical dynamics.", Presented by President Bush at a White House Ceremony on October 18, 1989.
• 1988 - Irving Langmuir Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
• 1985 - NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (US) For his scholarly research, distinguished by pioneering development of new methods, followed by brilliant theoretical and experimental examination of molecular systems having broad impact on current views of chemical reactivity.
• 1983 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to digital image processing techniques of earth observation sensor data and applications to operational systems.
• 1981 - Peter Debye Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
• 1977 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1968 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1956 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Chemical Reactivity

  Raphael D. Levine;Richard B. Bernstein;Yuan T. Lee

  2354
  Citations

• Atom - Molecule Collision Theory

  Richard B. Bernstein

  1267
  Citations

• Dissociation Energy and Long‐Range Potential of Diatomic Molecules from Vibrational Spacings of Higher Levels

  Robert J. LeRoy;Richard B. Bernstein

  710
  Citations

• Atom-molecule Collision Theory; a Guide for the Experimentalist

  Richard B. Bernstein

  531
  Citations

• Oriented Molecule Beams Via the Electrostatic Hexapole: Preparation, Characterization, and Reactive Scattering

  David H. Parker;Richard B. Bernstein

  341
  Citations

• Quantum Mechanical (Phase Shift) Analysis of Differential Elastic Scattering of Molecular Beams

  Richard B. Bernstein

  335
  Citations

• Thermal Scattering of Atoms by Homonuclear Diatomic Molecules

  R. B. Bernstein;Alexander Dalgarno;Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey;Ian Colin Percival

  321
  Citations

• Total Collision Cross Sections for the Interaction of Atomic Beams of Alkali Metals with Gases

  Erhard W. Rothe;Richard B. Bernstein

  316
  Citations

• Energy disposal and energy consumption in elementary chemical reactions. Information theoretic approach

  Raphael D. Levine;Richard B. Bernstein

  313
  Citations

• Chemical dynamics via molecular beam and laser techniques

  R. B. Bernstein;Richard N. Zare

  289
  Citations

• Role of Energy in Reactive Molecular Scattering: An in Form a Tion-Theoretic Approach

  R.B. Bernstein;R.D. Levine

  269
  Citations

• Real‐time picosecond clocking of the collision complex in a bimolecular reaction: The birth of OH from H+CO2

  Norbert F. Scherer;Lutfur R. Khundkar;Richard B. Bernstein;Ahmed H. Zewail

  260
  Citations

• Dynamical aspects of stereochemistry

  R. B. Bernstein;D. R. Herschbach;R. D. Levine

  244
  Citations

• Entropy and Chemical Change. II. Analysis of Product Energy Distributions: Temperature and Entropy Deficiency

  A. Ben‐Shaul;R. D. Levine;R. B. Bernstein

  237
  Citations

• Real-time clocking of bimolecular reactions : application to H+CO2

  N. F. Scherer;C. Sipes;R. B. Bernstein;A. H. Zewail

  236
  Citations

• Resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization and fragmentation of molecular beams: NO, I2, benzene, and butadiene

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  231
  Citations

• Entropy and Chemical Change. I. Characterization of Product (and Reactant) Energy Distributions in Reactive Molecular Collisions: Information and Entropy Deficiency

  R. B. Bernstein;R. D. Levine

  214
  Citations

• Quantum Effects in Elastic Molecular Scattering

  Richard B. Bernstein

  206
  Citations

• Resonance Theory of Termolecular Recombination Kinetics: H+H+M→H2M

  Robert E. Roberts;R. B. Bernstein;C. F. Curtiss

  204
  Citations

• Focusing and Orientation of Symmetric-Top Molecules with the Electric Six-Pole Field

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  203
  Citations

• Theory of oriented symmetric‐top molecule beams: Precession, degree of orientation, and photofragmentation of rotationally state‐selected molecules

  Seung E. Choi;Richard B. Bernstein

  198
  Citations

• Shape Resonances and Rotationally Predissociating Levels: The Atomic Collision Time‐Delay Functions and Quasibound Level Properties of H2(X 1Σg+)

  Robert J. Le Roy;Richard B. Bernstein

  191
  Citations

• Observation of the Reactive Asymmetry of Methyl Iodide. Crossed Beam Study of the Reaction of Rubidium with Oriented Methyl Iodide Molecules

  Robert J. Beuhler;Richard B. Bernstein;Karl H. Kramer

  172
  Citations