David W. Chandler was awarded the Dudley Herschbach Medal at the XXIX Dynamics Of Molecular Collisions meeting in Snowbird Utah, July 6-11, 2025.
The medal, named for Professor Dudley Herschbach (Harvard University), who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986, recognizes “bold and architectural work, inspiring and empowering” in Experimental and Theoretical Chemical Dynamics. The Medal has been awarded biennially since 2007 and first awarded to Professor Richard N. Zare of Stanford and Professor William H. Miller of Berkeley.
Dr. Chandler received the medal for his pioneering work on the development of multiplex detection techniques with molecular beams and for using these techniques to investigate the dynamics of chemical reactions, collisions and electron ejection. His foundational work in ion imaging has ushered in a new era of investigating fundamental physical processes at the microscopic level.