About

BS, Brooklyn College, 1967
MA, PhD, Princeton Univ, 1968,1970
NATO Postdoctoral Fellow (Cambridge UK) 1970-1
NRC-NBS Postdoc Associate (Gaithersburg) 1971-2
Assistant Professor, UMBC 1972-7
Associate Professor, UMBC 1977-1982
Full Professor, UMBC 1982- present

Research interests

My research is highly interdisciplinary, eclectic, conceptual, diverse and international, working with research colleagues in the U.S., Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Portugal , Slovenia, and many other countries.. My major areas of research interest include exotic chemical structures, manifestations of molecular stabilization and destabilization, estimation of molecular properties, rules and regularities of chemical phenomena, and the periodic table itself.

Teaching interests

My teaching interests are characterized by being highly interdisciplinary, conceptual and diverse. I actively seek understanding and explanations for the foundations of chemistry, mathematics, and the other natural sciences, and their interrelations with the social sciences and humanities.

Education

  • Ph D, Theoretical ChemistryPrinceton University (1970)
    Bonding in Rare Gas and Fluorine Compounds and Other Quantum Chemical Considerations
  • MA, Theoretical ChemistryPrinceton University (1968)
  • BS, ChemistryBrooklyn College of the City University of New York (1967)
  • Other, ChemistryUniversity of California, Los Angeles (1964)