Stuart A. Rice
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'''Stuart Alan Rice''' (born [[1932]] in [[New York City]]) is an American [[theoretical chemistry|theoretical chemist]] and [[physical chemistry|physical chemist]]<ref name="one">[http://chemistry.uchicago.edu/fac/rice.shtml Prof. Rice - Chemistry Department - University of Chicago<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>. He is well-known as a theoretical chemist who also does experimental research. He is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service [[Professor Emeritus]] at [[The University of Chicago]]. He received the [[National Medal of Science]] in [[1999]]<ref name="one"/>.
==Education and career==
Stuart Rice received his [[bachelor's degree]] in [[1952]] from [[Brooklyn College]], and earned his [[master's degree|master's]] and [[PhD|doctorate]] from [[Harvard University]] in [[1954]] and [[1955]], respectively. He remained at Harvard as a Junior Fellow for two years before joining the faculty of [[The University of Chicago]] in [[1957]], where he has remained since<ref name="one"/>.
Professor Rice has served the university in a wide variety of capacities during his forty-eight year tenure. He served as the director of the [[James Franck Institute]] (the university's center for [[physical chemistry]] and [[condensed matter physics]]) from [[1961]] to [[1967]]. He was Chairman of the Department of [[Chemistry]] from [[1971]] to [[1976]] and was Dean of the Physical Sciences Division from [[1981]] to [[1995]]<ref name="one"/>.
In addition to his work at the University, he is currently on the Board of Governors at [[Tel Aviv University]]<ref>[http://www.tau.ac.il/bog/members.html Program Members of The Board Of Governors - Tel Aviv University<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and has served as editor for the journals ''[[Chemical Physics Letters]]''<ref>[http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/505707/editorialboard?navopenmenu=-2 Chemical Physics Letters - Elsevier<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and ''[[Advances in Chemical Physics]]''<ref>http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/bookhome/93517918/ProductInformation.html?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0</ref>, and co-authored several physical chemistry [[textbook|textbooks]] with [[R._Stephen_Berry|Stephen Berry]] and [[John Ross]]<ref>[http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780195105896 OUP: UK General Catalogue<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>. He currently maintains a full research lab but has retired from teaching classes.
== Honors and awards ==
Professor Rice's most prestigious award the [[National Medal of Science]], the highest scientific prize awarded in the United States, in [[1999]]. He is a Fellow of both the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] and the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]. In [[1970]] Professor Rice was awarded the Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester [[Quantrell Award]] for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the nation’s oldest prize for undergraduate teaching, a highly esteemed faculty award at The University of Chicago<ref name="one"/>.
==Impact==
Over the course of his long career Rice has shaped much debate on theoretical physical chemistry. He is cited on the National Medal of Science "for changing the very nature of modern physical chemistry through his research, teaching and writing, using imaginative approaches to both experiment and theory that have inspired a new generation of scientists." With over 100 [[doctoral]] students to his credit, Stuart Rice has had a great impact on the field of physical chemistry simply through the number of research scientists he has trained. If all of these doctors were professors, they would fill several large chemistry departments all by themselves<ref>[http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/050526/maclean.shtml Rice, Straus to receive Maclean<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==Personal life==
Prof. Rice is also famous on campus for eating lunch almost every weekday at the university's [[Quadrangle Club (University of Chicago)|Quadrangle Club]] restaurant (a faculty club), where he has dined over 9,000 times. Rice is known to sit at the head of the Chemistry table, not because he is the most senior member of the department, but because he is very tall <ref>[http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0506/features/club.shtml The University of Chicago Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>.
==External links==
*[http://chemistry.uchicago.edu/fac/rice.shtml Stuart Rice Profile]
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