• Source: Robert J. LeRoy

      • Robert J. Le Roy (September 30, 1943 – August 10, 2018) was a Canadian chemist. He held the distinguished title of University Professor at the University of Waterloo.


      Career


      His work on the Morse/Long-range potential with his former student Nike Dattani of Oxford University was referred to as a "landmark in diatomic spectral analysis". In the landmark work, the C3 value for atomic lithium was determined to a higher-precision than any atom's previously measured oscillator strength, by an order of magnitude. This lithium oscillator strength is related to the radiative lifetime of atomic lithium and is used as a benchmark for atomic clocks and measurements of fundamental constants.


      Awards and honors


      1994 Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry from the Royal Society of Canada
      1995 J. Heyrovsky Honorary Medal for Merit in the Chemical Sciences from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.


      See also


      List of University of Waterloo people


      References




      External links


      Robert J. LeRoy's homepage at University of Waterloo (archived at the Internet Wayback Machine)

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