Information

Membership Number: FCA2109

Membership Type: Full Fellowship

Division: Natural Sciences

Corresponding Email: ******michl@colorado.edu

Homepage(s):  https://www.colorado.edu/chemistry/josef-michl

Present and Previous Positions

Professor of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Physical organic chemistry, photochemistry, reactive intermediates, chemistry of silicon and boron, electronic structure of molecules, modular chemistry, molecular electronics.

Michl has made important contributions to numerous areas of chemistry during his career: theoretical and experimental aspects of organic photochemistry, magnetic circular dichroism, chemistry and theory of biradicals and biradicaloids, electronic and vibrational spectroscopy with polarized light, silicon chemistry and electronic structure, theory and experiment of sputtered frozen gases, properties and theory of organic Reaction intermediates, cluster-ions, molecular building blocks for supramolecular structures and boron chemistry. 

He has made major contributions to the understanding of photochemical reactions, to the characterization of reactive intermediates, and to molecular spectroscopy with polarized light. 

Present interests include the chemistry of silicon, fluorine, boron, and lithium, the photophysics of solar energy conversion, arrays of molecular rotors, and alkylation of gold surfaces.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Member of National Academy of Sciences (US)

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

American Chemical Society Fellow

Fellow of the I-APS

Member of International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science

Member of  American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Czech Learned Society Honorary Member

Honorary Doctorate, Georgetown University, 1990

Honorary Doctorate, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, 1996

Honorary Doctorate, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, 2004

Czechoslovak Society for Arts and Sciences, 2017, Neuron Foundation Award, Czech Republic, 2016, Hammond Award, I-APS, 2015, Boron in the Americas Award, 2014,  Medal of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (Acad. Sci., Prague, Czech Republic), 2012 and 2004, Fulbright Fellowship, 2006, University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship, 2006, Patria Award, Government of the Czech Republic, Prague, 2005, Marinus Smith Award, University of Colorado, 2003, Porter Medal (I-APS, EPA, JPA), 2002, Best Journal Issue Award for Chemical Reviews (Association of American Publishers), 2002, ALA Achievement Award (Association for Laboratory Automation), 2002, Otto Wichterle Award (Czech Chemical Society), 2001, James Flack Norris Award (American Chemical Society), 2001, Auburn - G. M. Kosolapoff Award (ACS Auburn Section), 2000, Japan Society for Promotion of Science Award, 1998, World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists (WATOC) Fellow, 1996, Czech Learned Society, Honorary Member, 1995, Charles University Gold Medal, Prague, Czech Republic, 1995, J. Heyrovsky Gold Medal (Czech Academy of Sciences), 1994, IAPS Award (Inter-American Photochemical Society), 1994, Schrödinger Medal (World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists), 1993, Arthur C. Cope Senior Scholar Award (American Chemical Society), 1993, ACS Utah Section Award, 1986, John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1984-85, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (Member), Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award, 1980, Distinguished Research Award, University of Utah, 1978-79, Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1971-75

Selected Publications

About 470 scientific papers, 7 patents. Five books, coauthored and one edited. Editor, Chemical Reviews (since 1984)

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