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112
Citations
43504
World Ranking
743
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299

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2003 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
  • 1999 - Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 1998 - E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 1997 - Ellis R. Lippincott Award, The Optical Society
  • 1997 - Peter Debye Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 1986 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For inventing ingenious experiments exploiting the nonlinear couplings of radiation and matter, and using these methods in pioneering studies of dynamics of molecules in gas, liquid and solid phases
  • 1982 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1981 - Bourke Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 1971 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1963 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Robin M. Hochstrasser was a researcher primarily affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their academic career was marked by contributions in chemical research and spectroscopy, with a focus that spanned multiple recognized distinctions and honors.

Throughout their career, Hochstrasser received numerous awards from major scientific organizations. These included the F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research from the American Chemical Society in 2006, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal awarded by the Franklin Institute in 2003. They also received the Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 1999.

Additional honors comprised the E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy from the American Chemical Society in 1998, the Peter Debye Award from the American Chemical Society in 1997, and the Ellis R. Lippincott Award from The Optical Society the same year. Earlier in their career, they were recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1986, with a citation noting their invention of experiments exploiting nonlinear couplings of radiation and matter, and pioneering studies on molecular dynamics in gas, liquid, and solid phases.

Hochstrasser was also elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1982. Other distinctions included the Bourke Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 1981, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1971 and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1963.

Best Publications

  • Wide-field subdiffraction imaging by accumulated binding of diffusing probes

    Alexey Sharonov;Robin M. Hochstrasser

  • Intense terahertz pulses by four-wave rectification in air

    D. J. Cook;R. M. Hochstrasser

  • STRUCTURE OF THE AMIDE I BAND OF PEPTIDES MEASURED BY FEMTOSECOND NONLINEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY

    Peter Hamm;and Manho Lim;Robin M. Hochstrasser

  • Vibrational Relaxation Dynamics in Solutions

    J C Owrutsky;D Raftery;R M Hochstrasser

  • Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of peptides by phase-controlled femtosecond vibrational photon echoes.

    M. C. Asplund;M. T. Zanni;R. M. Hochstrasser

  • The two-dimensional IR nonlinear spectroscopy of a cyclic penta-peptide in relation to its three-dimensional structure.

    Peter Hamm;Manho Lim;William F. DeGrado;Robin M. Hochstrasser

  • Two-photon absorption by rotating diatomic molecules

    R.G. Bray;R.M. Hochstrasser

  • Two-dimensional spectroscopy at infrared and optical frequencies.

    Robin M. Hochstrasser

  • Solvent influence on photoisomerization dynamicsa)

    G. Rothenberger;D. K. Negus;R. M. Hochstrasser

  • Chemical exchange 2D IR of hydrogen-bond making and breaking

    Yung Sam Kim;Robin M. Hochstrasser

  • Two-dimensional IR-spectroscopy: polarization anisotropy effects

    Robin M. Hochstrasser

  • Non-Markovian Dynamics of the Vibrations of Ions in Water from Femtosecond Infrared Three-Pulse Photon Echoes

    Peter Hamm;Manho Lim;Robin M. Hochstrasser

  • Two-dimensional IR spectroscopy can be designed to eliminate the diagonal peaks and expose only the crosspeaks needed for structure determination

    Martin T. Zanni;Nien-Hui Ge;Yung Sam Kim;Robin M. Hochstrasser

  • Molecular dynamics simulations of cooling in laser-excited heme proteins.

    Eric R. Henry;William A. Eaton;Robin M. Hochstrasser

  • Perturbations between Electronic States in Aromatic and Heteroaromatic Molecules

    Robin M. Hochstrasser;Charles Marzzacco

  • Applications of 2D IR spectroscopy to peptides, proteins, and hydrogen-bond dynamics.

    Yung Sam Kim;Robin M. Hochstrasser

  • Anthracene-BODIPY cassettes: syntheses and energy transfer.

    Chi-Wai Wan;Armin Burghart;Jiong Chen;Fredrik Bergström

  • Femtosecond laser studies of the cis‐stilbene photoisomerization reactions

    Roseanne J. Sension;Stephen T. Repinec;Stephen T. Repinec;Arpad Z. Szarka;Robin M. Hochstrasser

  • APPLICATION OF THE EXCITON MODEL TO MONO‐MOLECULAR LAMELLAR SYSTEMS*

    Robin M. Hochstrasser;Michael Kasha

  • Fluorescence and photobleaching dynamics of single light-harvesting complexes

    Martin A. Bopp;Yiwei Jia;Liangquan Li;Richard J. Cogdell

  • Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy: a promising new method for the time resolution of structures.

    Martin T Zanni;Robin M Hochstrasser

  • Radiationless Transitions in Photochemistry

    Joshua Jortner;Stuart A. Rice;Robin M. Hochstrasser

Frequent Co-Authors

Amos B. Smith
Amos B. Smith University of Pennsylvania
Ahmed H. Zewail
Ahmed H. Zewail California Institute of Technology
Peter Hamm
Peter Hamm University of Zurich
William F. DeGrado
William F. DeGrado University of California, San Francisco
Tianquan Lian
Tianquan Lian Emory University
Martin T. Zanni
Martin T. Zanni University of Wisconsin–Madison
Arjun G. Yodh
Arjun G. Yodh University of Pennsylvania
Gilad Haran
Gilad Haran Weizmann Institute of Science
Jeffrey C. Owrutsky
Jeffrey C. Owrutsky United States Naval Research Laboratory
Gilbert C. Walker
Gilbert C. Walker University of Toronto

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