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March-April 2006
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Alexandra Navrotsky Awarded the 2006 Rossini Lecture
The recipient of the 2006 Rossini Lectureship Award, selected
by the Board of Directors of Directors of the International
Association of Chemical Thermodynamics (IACT), is Professor
Alexandra Navrotsky of the University of California at Davis,
director of the UC Davis Organized Research Unit on Nanomaterials
in the Environment, Agriculture and Technology. The highly
esteemed award, made by IACT, is given in recognition of a
significant contribution to the field of thermodynamics.
Navrotsky was educated at the Bronx High School of Science
and the University of Chicago (where she received a B.S.,
M.S., and Ph.D. in physical chemistry). After postdoctoral
work in Germany and at Penn State University, she joined the
faculty in Chemistry at Arizona State University, where she
remained until her move to the Department of Geological and
Geophysical Sciences at Princeton University in 1985. In 1997,
she became an interdisciplinary professor of ceramic, earth,
and environmental materials chemistry at the University of
California at Davis, and in 2001 she was appointed the Edward
Roessler Chair in Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Her
research interests have centered on relating microscopic features
of structure and bonding to macroscopic thermodynamic behavior
in minerals, ceramics, and other complex materials. She has
made
contributions to mineral thermodynamics; mantle mineralogy
and high-pressure phase transitions; silicate melt and glass
thermodynamics; order–disorder in spinels; framework
silicates and other oxides; ceramic processing; oxide superconductors;
nanophase oxides, zeolites, nitrides, and perovskites; and
the general problem of structure-energy property systematics.
The main technical area of her laboratory is high-temperature
reaction calorimetry.
The Rossini award is presented at the Biennial IUPAC Conference
on Chemical Thermodynamics, where the recipient delivers the
Rossini Lecture (see ICCT announcement
p. 40). Recipients in the past decade have been Robert
A. Alberty (1996), Stanley I. Sandler (1998), William A. Wakeham
(2000), John M. Prausnitz (2002), and Jean-Pierre E. Grolier
(2004).
For more
about IACT, see CI,
Jan-Feb 2004; for more about the Rossini lecture, see
CI,
Mar-Apr 2003.
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