Sharon Hammes-Schiffer was born on May 27,1966 and is a physical chemist who has contributed to theoretical and computational chemistry.
14 Facts About Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
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Sharon Hammes-Schiffer is currently the A Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University.
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Sharon Hammes-Schiffer has served as senior editor and deputy editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry and advisory editor for Theoretical Chemistry Accounts.
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In studying proton, electron and proton coupled electron transfer, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer has formulated a general theory of proton-coupled electron transfer reactions that explains the behavior of protons in energy conversion processes.
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Sharon Hammes-Schiffer's research has enhanced the understanding of hydrogen tunneling and protein motion in enzyme catalysis.
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Sharon Hammes-Schiffer's work has application to a variety of experimental results and has implications for areas such as protein engineering, drug design, catalyst of solar cells, and enzymatic reactions.
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Sharon Hammes-Schiffer held positions on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame as Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and at Pennsylvania State University.
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Sharon Hammes-Schiffer is an author or co-author on nearly 200 papers, and has given more than 200 invited talks.
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Sharon Hammes-Schiffer's work delves primarily into three separate areas of chemistry: Proton-coupled electron transfer, Enzymatic Processes, and the Nuclear-Electronic Orbital method.
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Sharon Hammes-Schiffer has pioneered work in what she calls the Nuclear-electronic orbital method which allows for a more accurate estimate of nuclear properties such as density, geometry, frequencies, electronic coupling, and nuclear motions.
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Sharon Hammes-Schiffer discovered that rather than the magnesium ion lying in the center of the complex, the ion lies in a separate site, termed the Hoogsteen Face, where it lowers the pKa of the complex in order to facilitate a deprotonation reaction necessary for a self-cleavage reaction.
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Sharon Hammes-Schiffer is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Biophysical Society.
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Sharon Hammes-Schiffer was elected as a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science in 2014.
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Sharon Hammes-Schiffer has received a number of awards, including the following:.