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When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Rice, Stuart Alan. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Stuart Alan Rice was born in New York, New York in 1932. He received a S.B. from Brooklyn College in 1952, and was awarded his Ph.D. by Harvard University in 1955. He joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago in 1957 and has served as Director of the James Franck Institute (1961-1967), Chair of the Department of Chemistry (1971-1976) and Dean of the Division of the Physical Sciences (1981-1995). He is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus.
The collection is divided into three series.
Series I: Publications includes materials associated with books and articles authored and co-authored by Rice. It is divided into four subseries. Subseries 1 contains notes, manuscripts and correspondence for The statistical mechanics of simple liquids; an introduction to the theory of equilibrium and non-equilibrium phenomena, published by Rice and Peter Gray in 1965. Subseries 2 includes copies of articles used as sources in Rice and Meishan Zhao's Optical Control of Molecular Dynamics (2000) along with copies of associated permission requests. Subseries 3 contains files associated with Rice's work with R. Stephen Berry and John Ross on the second edition of the textbook Physical Chemistry. Subseries 4 includes offprints of articles authored and co-authored by Rice, organized chronologically and identified by short titles.
Series II: Research includes research notes, charts and calculations compiled by Stuart and his students and colleagues.
Series III: Teaching, contains lecture notes, examinations, assignments, problem solutions, for courses taught by Rice at the University of Chicago.
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