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59
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10331
World Ranking
10336
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2859

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1985 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1985 - Herbert P. Broida Prize, American Physical Society
  • 1972 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1962 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)
  • 1960 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Richard Bersohn was affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed to the academic field primarily through research, although no specific papers, co-authors, or publication venues were documented in the available data.

Bersohn's recognition in the scientific community included several notable awards and honors. In 1960, they were named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Two years later, in 1962, they became a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). In 1972, they received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

In 1985, Bersohn was awarded the Herbert P. Broida Prize by the American Physical Society, an award given for outstanding experimental advances in the fields of atomic and molecular spectroscopy or chemical physics. The same year, they were elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, reflecting recognition by peers in the scientific community.

Although specific research topics, papers, or publication venues were not listed in the data, Bersohn's career was marked by distinctions that suggest a significant presence in physical sciences, particularly in areas connected to spectroscopy and chemical physics as implied by the awards received.

Best Publications

  • Double‐Quantum Light Scattering by Molecules

    Richard Bersohn;Yoh-Han Pao;H. L. Frisch

  • Theory of the angular distribution of molecular photofragments

    Sze‐cheng Yang;Richard Bersohn

  • Theories of the Dynamics of Photodissociation

    M. Shapiro;R. Bersohn

  • Photodissociation of molecular beams of aryl halides

    Unknown

  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Line Shape for a Triangular Configuration of Nuclei

    Unknown

  • A nomenclature for Λ‐doublet levels in rotating linear molecules

    M. H. Alexander;P. Andresen;R. Bacis;R. Bersohn

  • Variational Approach to the Quadrupole Polarizability of Ions

    Unknown

  • Structural Investigations by Means of Nuclear Magnetism. III. Ammonium Halides

    Unknown

  • Measurement of the relative populations of I(2P01/2) and I(2P03/2) by laser induced vacuum ultraviolet fluorescence

    P. Brewer;P. Das;G. S. Ondrey;R. Bersohn

  • Vibrational energy distribution of the CH3 radical photodissociated from CH3I

    Unknown

  • PHOTODISSOCIATION OF MOLECULAR BEAMS OF METHYLENE IODIDE AND IODOFORM

    M. Kawasaki;S. J. Lee;R. Bersohn

  • The photodissociation of nitromethane at 193 nm

    L. J. Butler;D. Krajnovich;Y. T. Lee;G. S. Ondrey

  • Ion Imaging of the Photodissociation of OCS Near 217 and 230 nm

    Yoshihiro Sato;Yutaka Matsumi;Masahiro Kawasaki;Koichi Tsukiyama

  • Dissociation of methanol and ethanol activated by a chemical reaction or by light

    Sunita Satyapal;Jeunghee Park;Richard Bersohn;Benjamin Katz

  • Nuclear Electric Quadrupole Spectra in Solids

    Unknown

  • Proton Hyperfine Interactions in Semiquinone Ions

    Unknown

  • The state distribution of OH radicals photodissociated from H2O2 at 193 and 248 nm

    G. Ondrey;N. van Veen;R. Bersohn

  • Photodissociation of aryl and aryl–alkyl halides at 193 nm: Fragment translational energy distributions

    A. Freedman;S. C. Yang;M. Kawasaki;R. Bersohn

  • Energy distribution of the fragments produced by photodissociation of CS2 at 193 nm

    S. C. Yang;A. Freedman;M. Kawasaki;R. Bersohn

  • Isotopic branching ratio for the reaction A+HD→AD(H)+H(D)

    Koichi Tsukiyama;B. Katz;B. Katz;R. Bersohn

  • Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Hemoglobin and Its Complexes with Subpicosecond Optical Pulses

    CV Shank;EP Ippen;R Bersohn

  • Fluorescence excitation spectra of indole, 3‐methyl indole, and 3‐indole acetic acid in supersonic jets

    Richard Bersohn;Uzi Even;Joshua Jortner

  • ORIENTATION OF TARGETS BY BEAM EXCITATION.

    Richard Bersohn;Sheng H. Lin

  • Isotope effect in the photodissociation of HDO at 157.5 nm

    Neil Shafer;Sunita Satyapal;Richard Bersohn

  • Vacuum ultraviolet photochemistry of CH4 and isotopomers. II. Product channel fields and absorption spectra

    Jen Han Wang;Kopin Liu;Zhiyuan Min;Hongmei Su

  • Studies of individual carbon sites of azurin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa by natural-abundance carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

    Kamil Ugurbil;Raymond S. Norton;Raymond S. Norton;Adam Allerhand;Richard Bersohn

  • Unimolecular decomposition of methylsubstituted benzenes into benzyl radicals and hydrogen atoms

    Jeunghee Park;Richard Bersohn;Izhack Oref

Frequent Co-Authors

Masahiro Kawasaki
Masahiro Kawasaki Kyoto University
Jeunghee Park
Jeunghee Park Korea University
Uzi Even
Uzi Even Tel Aviv University
Arun Chattopadhyay
Arun Chattopadhyay Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Kamil Ugurbil
Kamil Ugurbil University of Minnesota
Joshua Jortner
Joshua Jortner Tel Aviv University
Moshe Shapiro
Moshe Shapiro University of British Columbia
Aviv Amirav
Aviv Amirav Tel Aviv University
Raphael D. Levine
Raphael D. Levine Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Raymond S. Norton
Raymond S. Norton Monash University

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