Bretislav Friedrich

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Bretislav Friedrich
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Bretislav Friedrich (born 29 May 1953) is a Research Group leader at the Department of Molecular Physics,

Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and Honorarprofessor at the Technische Universität in Berlin, Germany. He is globally recognized for his pioneering research surrounding interaction of molecules with and in electric, magnetic, and optical fields as well as on cold molecules.[1] He was admitted to the Learned Society of the Czech Republic
in 2011.

Biography

Bretislav Friedrich was born in Prague, Czech Republic on 29 May 1953.[2] He graduated, in 1976, in physical chemistry from Charles University in Prague, with a diploma thesis on deviations of dilute macro-molecular solutions in mixed solvents from the ideal behavior.[3] Subsequently, he changed fields to study ion-molecule reactions in the gas phase and earned his Ph.D. degree from the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences in 1981 for his work on ion scattering in crossed beams.[4]

Academic career

In 1981-82, he was a postdoc with Jean Futrell at the

Peter Toennies at the Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung in Göttingen, where he studied inelastic proton scattering by atoms and molecules.[6]

In 1987, Bretislav Friedrich joined

dipole moments and external electric, magnetic, and optical fields.[7] Together with the group of John Doyle at Harvard Physics, he also pioneered the study of cold molecules, by helping to develop the buffer-gas cooling technique and its combination with magnetic trapping.[8]
In 1997, he was appointed Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Chemistry at Harvard University.

In 2003, he became a Research Group Leader at the

nano-droplets
.

Personal life

Bretislav Friedrich and his wife, Christine Friedrich, nee Storch, have three children, Juliane (b. 2007), Christian (b. 2008) and Jitka (b. 2010). His daughter Jana (b. 1982), from his marriage with Helena Friedrich (1955–2002), is a graphic-design artist, living in Prague.

History of Science

Alongside his scientific research, Bretislav Friedrich has maintained an abiding interest in the

History of Science and has written on the emergence of quantum mechanics[11][12] and of physical and theoretical chemistry[13][14] as well as penned numerous biographical articles.[15]

Disarmament

In 2015, Bretislav Friedrich co-organized an international symposium to mark the centenary of the infamous

dual use — as well as the ongoing effort to control the possession of chemical weapons and to ultimately achieve their elimination. A proceedings volume[16]
consisting of papers presented at the symposium and supplemented by additional articles covers key aspects of chemical warfare from 1915 until this day.

Literature on Bretislav Friedrich

References

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  2. S2CID 59472229
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  3. doi:10.1016/0014-3057(79)90189-7
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  4. doi:10.1016/0301-0104(82)88081-6
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  5. doi:10.1063/1.447047
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  6. doi:10.1063/1.453668
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  7. PMID 10058557
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  8. S2CID 38268509
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  11. doi:10.1063/1.1650229
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  12. S2CID 64368256
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  13. ISBN 978-3-11-023953-9
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  14. PMID 27010426
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  15. ISSN 0005-9021
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  16. ISBN 9783319516639
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