LARAMIE, Wyo., Sept. 3 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release:
David T. Anderson, a University of Wyoming chemistry professor, was awarded the prestigious
George C. Pimentel Prize for Advances in Matrix Isolation at the Chemistry and Physics
at Low Temperatures conference Aug. 2-6 at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany.
The biennial international award recognizes outstanding, career-defining contributions
to matrix isolation spectroscopy. It was established in 2005 to honor George C. Pimentel,
the pioneer of the matrix isolation method. Pimentel was a preeminent physical chemist,
University of California-Berkeley professor and inventor of the chemical laser whose
work revolutionized the study of chemical bonding....