William Carl Lineberger, Date of Birth

    

William Carl Lineberger

physical chemist

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1939

Profession: physicist, physical chemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About William Carl Lineberger

  • William Carl Lineberger (born December 5, 1939) is an American chemist. A native of Hamlet, North Carolina, William Carl Lineberger was born to parents Caleb Henry and Evelyn Pelot Cooper Lineberger on December 5, 1939.
  • His mother was a former teacher and his father was a railroad worker.
  • Through his mother, Lineberger is of French Huguenot descent.
  • As a child, Lineberger was a Boy Scout and made Eagle rank.
  • After completing his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Lineberger began teaching at his alma mater, leaving for a research position at the U.
  • S.
  • Army Ballistic Research Laboratory and later the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics.
  • The University of Colorado at Boulder, one of two joint operators of JILA, hired Lineberger as an assistant professor in 1970.
  • He was named E.
  • U.
  • Condon Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Colorado in 1985.Over the course of his career, Lineberger has received several awards.
  • Among them are: the Herbert P.
  • Broida Prize (1981) awarded by the American Physical Society, the Earle K.
  • Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy (1992), Irving Langmuir Award (1996) and Peter Debye Award (2004) of the American Chemical Society, and the William F.
  • Meggers Award in Spectroscopy (1989) from the Optical Society of America.
  • Lineberger received the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences in 2015.
  • Linberger is a member of the American Chemical Society as well as the National Academy of Sciences (1983) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995).
  • He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society (1973).
  • From 2011 to 2016, Lineberger served on the National Science Board and was nominated for a second term by Barack Obama in 2016.

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