14 Facts About Philip Bunker

Philip R Bunker was born on 29 June 1941 and is a British-Canadian scientist and author, known for his work in theoretical chemistry and molecular spectroscopy.

Philip Bunker received a bachelor's degree at King's College in 1962 and earned a Ph.

Under the guidance of Longuet-Higgins, Bunker applied these new symmetry ideas and introduced the notations G36 and G100 for the molecular symmetry groups of dimethylacetylene and ferrocene, respectively.

Philip Bunker then spent his entire career at the National Research Council of Canada, eventually rising to the position of principal research officer in 1997.

Philip Bunker's published scientific work has focused on the use of fundamental quantum mechanics to predict and interpret the spectral properties of polyatomic molecules due to their combined rotational, vibrational, electronic and nuclear-spin states, and their symmetries.

Philip Bunker has been particularly concerned with the study of the energy levels and spectra of molecules that undergo large amplitude vibrational motions.

Philip Bunker is a well-known expert in the use of the molecular symmetry group.

Philip Bunker then developed the extensions of these principles to linear molecules as well as to molecules with strong spin-orbit coupling.

Philip Bunker is known for his work in the quantitative description of non-adiabatic effects in quantum molecular dynamics.

Together with Per Jensen, who was a theoretical chemist at Bergische Universitat Wuppertal, Philip Bunker has written two books on theoretical chemistry and molecular spectroscopy; Molecular Symmetry and Spectroscopy and Fundamentals of Molecular Symmetry.

Currently, Philip Bunker is Researcher Emeritus at the National Research Council of Canada and a guest scientist at the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society.

Philip Bunker has held visiting scientist positions at universities and institutions around the world during the course of his career, including ETH-Zurich, Massey University, Kyushu University and University of Florence.

Philip Bunker received the Humboldt Prize, the Medaili Jana Marca Marci of the Czech Spectroscopy Society, and the 2002 Sir Harold Thompson Memorial Award, which is sponsored by Pergamon Press for the most significant advance in spectroscopy published in Spectrochimica Acta each year.

Philip Bunker is a Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.