Graham R. Fleming (born 1949) is an American chemist, currently serving as professor and director of the Institute for Quantitative Biosciences at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1]

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Significant publications 2 Awards and honors[2] 3 References

[edit] Career

Fleming received a B.S. (with honours) degree in Chemistry from the University of Bristol (1971) and a Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from the University of London (1974). He spent the next five years as a postdoctoral researcher at three institutions: California Institute of Technology (1974-1975); University of Melbourne (1975-1976); and the Royal Institution in the United Kingdom (1976-1979).

In 1979 Fleming received his first academic appointment, as assistant professor at University of Chicago (1979-1983). In 1983 he was appointed associate professor, and in 1985 he was made a full professor (A. H. Compton Distinguished Services Professor). He filled that position until 1997, when he accepted a dual position at the University of California, Berkeley as professor in Chemistry and as the first director of the Physical Bioscience Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; in 2002 he was given the chair of Melvin Calvin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UC-B.

Fields of study pursued by Fleming and his study groups include condensed-phase chemical and biological dynamics, photosynthesis operations, quantum dynamics, quantum information in condensed phases, photochemical reactions, electronic processes at nanoscale, and development of nonlinear optical spectroscopes.

[edit] Significant publications

• Carotenoid Cation Formation and the Regulation of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting. (co-author), Science 307, 433-436 (2005)
• Two-dimensional Spectroscopy of Electronic Couplings in Photosynthesis. (co-author), Nature 434, 625-628 (2005)
• Evidence for wavelike energy transfer: Quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems. (co-author), Nature 446, 782 (2007)
• Coherence dynamics in photosynthesis: Protein protection of excitonic coherence. (co-author), Science 316, 1462 (2007)
• Architecture of a Charge-Transfer State Regulating Light Harvesting in a Plant Antenna Protein. (co-author), Science 320, 794-796 (2008)

[edit] Awards and honors^[2]

• made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991)
• made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (1994)
• received an award from the Inter-American Photochemical Society (1996)
• received an award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (1996)
• presented the Centenary Lecture to Royal Society of Chemistry (1996)
• presented the Max T. Rogers Distinguished Lectureship lecture at Michigan State University (1997)
• received the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (1998)
• received the Harrison Howe Award in Physical Chemistry from the ACS (1999)
• received the Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy from the American Physical Society (2002)
• received the Sierra Nevada Distinguished Chemist Award (2003)
• received the Porter Medal from the European Photochemistry Association (2004)
• made a Member of the United States National Academy of Science (2007)
• presented the Presidential Lecture to Iowa State University (2008)^[3]
• received the Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology from the ACS (2008)
• received the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical & Experimental Chemistry of Liquids from the ACS (2009)^[4]

[edit] References