Freed, Jack H

Frank and Robert Laughlin Professor of Physical Chemistry

research

research and scholarship focus

  • Application of magnetic resonance to problems in chemical physics and biophysics
  • Molecular dynamics, reactivity, and structure in condensed media, on clean surfaces, and in model membranes
  • Development of ESR spectroscopy into a tool to analyze molecular dynamics
  • Molecular reorientational motions in liquids and membranes

affiliations

faculty appointment in

member of graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

background

educational background

  • PhD, Columbia University, 1962
  • BChe, Yale University, 1958

awards and distinctions

  • ACS Buck-Whitney Award
  • International ESR Society Gold Medal
  • Irving Langmuir Prize
  • International Zavoisky Prize, Zavoisky Institute, Russian Academy of Science
  • 2004 Festschrift Issue of Journal of Physical Chemistry

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

Borbat, P.P., J. H. Davis, S. E. Butcher, and J. H. Freed, Measurement of Large Distances in Biomolecules Using Double-Quantum-Filtered Refocused Electron-Spin-Echoes, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2004, 126, 7746-7747.

Liang, Z., Y. Lou, J.H. Freed, L. Columbus, and W.L. Hubbell, A Multifrequency ESR Study of T4 Lysozyme Dynamics using the Slowly Relaxing Local Structure Model, J. Phys. Chem., 2004, 108, 17649-17659.

Dzikovski, B.G., Petr P. Borbat, and J.H. Freed, Spin-Labeled Gramicidin A. Channel Formation and Dissociation, Biophys. J., 2004, 87, 3504-3517.

Chiang, Y.K., Y. Shimoyama, G.W. Feigenson, and J.H. Freed, Dynamic Molecular Structure of DPPC-DLPC-Cholesterol Ternary Lipid System by Spin-Labeling ESR, Biophys. J., 2004, 87, 2483-2496.

Blank, A., C.R. Dunnam, P.P. Borbat, and J.H. Freed, Pulsed 3D Electron Spin Resonance Microscopy, Applied Phys. Letters, 2004, 85, 5430-5432.