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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1960 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Willis B. Person is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States.

The researcher has been recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1960.

Best Publications

  • Properties of Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes Obtained from the B3LYP Functional with 6-31G(d,p) and 6-31+G(d,p) Basis Sets: Comparison with MP2/6-31+G(d,p) Results and Experimental Data

    Janet E. Del Bene;Willis B. Person;Krystyna Szczepaniak

  • Dipole moment derivatives and infrared intensities. I. Polar tensors

    Willis B. Person;James H. Newton

  • <i>Molecular Interactions and Electronic Spectra</i>

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  • Matrix isolation infrared studies of nucleic acid constituents. 5. Experimental matrix-isolation and theoretical ab initio SCF molecular orbital studies of the infrared spectra of cytosine monomers

    M. Szczesniak;K. Szczepaniak;J. S. Kwiatkowski;K. KuBulat

  • Donor-Acceptor Complexes

    R. S. Mulliken;Willis B. Person

  • A Criterion for Reliability of Formation Constants of Weak Complexes

    Willis B. Person

  • Absolute infrared intensities and band shapes in pure solid CO and CO in some solid matrices

    George J. Jiang;Willis B. Person;Kenneth G. Brown

  • MATRIX ISOLATION STUDIES OF NUCLEIC ACID CONSTITUENTS. I. INFRARED SPECTRA OF URACIL MONOMERS

    M. Szczesniak;M. J. Nowak;H. Rostkowska;Krystyna Szczepaniak

  • Dipole moment derivatives and infrared intensities. II. Polar tensors in methyl halide molecules

    James H. Newton;Willis B. Person

  • Interpretation of infrared intensity changes on molecular complex formation. I. Water dimer

    Barbara A. Zilles;Willis B. Person

  • Electron Affinities of Some Halogen Molecules and the Charge‐Transfer Frequency

    Willis B. Person

  • Quantitative Analysis of Glass Structure with the Use of Infrared Reflection Spectra

    D. M. Sanders;W. B. Person;L. L. Hench

  • Vibrational Intensities. VI. Ethylene and Its Deuteroisotopes

    R. C. Golike;I. M. Mills;W. B. Person;Bryce Crawford

  • Infrared Spectra of Charge‐Transfer Complexes. VI. Theory

    H. Bruce Friedrich;Willis B. Person

  • Transition moments in infrared‐active fundamentals of spherical‐top molecules

    Kenneth Fox;Willis B. Person

  • Raman and Infrared Spectra of Thymine. A Matrix Isolation and DFT Study

    Krystyna Szczepaniak;and M. Martin Szczesniak;Willis B. Person

  • Contributions from electron correlation to the relative stabilities of the tautomers of nucleic acid bases

    Jozef S. Kwiatkowski;Rodney J. Bartlett;Willis B. Person

  • Matrix isolation studies of nucleic acid constituents. 2. Quantitative ab initio prediction of the infrared spectrum of in-plane modes of uracil

    Steven Chin;Ismael Scott;Krystyna Szczepani;Willis B. Person

  • Thiouracils. 2. Tautomerism and infrared spectra of thiouracils. Matrix-isolation and ab initio studies

    H. Rostkowska;K. Szczepaniak;M. J. Nowak;J. Leszczynski

  • Infrared and Raman Spectra, Force Constants, and the Structures of Some Polyhalide Ions: ICl2−, ICl4−, BrCl2−, and Br3−

    Willis B. Person;George R. Anderson;James N. Fordemwalt;H. Stammreich

  • Liquid‐Gas Infrared Intensities, Pressure‐Induced Absorption, and the Temperature Dependence of Infrared Intensities in Liquids

    Willis B. Person

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet E. Del Bene
Janet E. Del Bene Youngstown State University
Rodney J. Bartlett
Rodney J. Bartlett University of Florida
Alexander I. Popov
Alexander I. Popov Michigan State University
Ian G. Mills
Ian G. Mills University of Oxford
George C. Pimentel
George C. Pimentel University of California, Berkeley
Jerzy Leszczynski
Jerzy Leszczynski Jackson State University
Larry L. Hench
Larry L. Hench Florida Institute of Technology
Ludwik Adamowicz
Ludwik Adamowicz University of Arizona
Kenneth S. Pitzer
Kenneth S. Pitzer University of California, Berkeley
David Shugar
David Shugar Polish Academy of Sciences

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