Donald D. Fitts
Professor of Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Office: 541C N
Phone: (215) 898-8628
Email: dfitts
sas
upennedu
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Research Statement
From a knowledge of the interactions among molecules, it is possible in principle to predict the structure and the thermodynamic properties of materials as well as the dynamics of molecular processes. The overall objective of our research program is twofold: to evaluate the potential energies of intermolecular interactions for various systems as accurately as possible and to study by means of statistical mechanics the influence of these potentials of intermolecular force on the structure and properties of macroscopic systems.
Education and Academic History
- A.B. Harvard University (1954)
- Ph.D. Yale University (1957)
- N.S.F. Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Amsterdam (1957-58)
- NATO Senior Science Fellow, Imperial College, University of London (1971)
- Academic Visitor, Oxford University (1978)
- Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, School of Arts and Sciences (1978-82, 83-94)
- Acting Dean, School of Arts and Sciences (1982-83)
- Visiting Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, U.K. (1996)
Selected Publications
Fitts, D.D., "Ladder operator treatment of the radial equation for the hydrogen-like atom," J. Chem. Educ. 1995, 72, 1066.Fitts, D.D., "Principles of Quantum Mechanics: as applied to chemistry and chemical physics," Cambridge University
Press, Cambidge, U.K., 1999.
