'''Brooks H. Pate''' is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://chem.virginia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/brooks-h-pate/ |title=Department of Chemistry | Brooks H. Pate |access-date=April 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620094900/http://chem.virginia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/brooks-h-pate/ |archive-date=June 20, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pci.uzh.ch/tellurideworkshop/abstract_Pate.html |title=Brooks Pate |access-date=April 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707004643/http://www.pci.uzh.ch/tellurideworkshop/abstract_Pate.html |archive-date=July 7, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
He graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.S. in chemistry in 1987, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in 1992. He was a NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD) from 1992 to 1993. He heads the Pate Research Group.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.designingmatter.net/2004/index.php?section=speakers&sid=01 |title=CCSC 200, Designing Matter, University of Virginia |access-date=April 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723091201/http://www.designingmatter.net/2004/index.php?section=speakers&sid=01 |archive-date=July 23, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Awards== * 2016 William F. Meggers Award in Spectroscopy<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/awards/award_description/meggersaward/|title=William F. Meggers Award|publisher =Optical Society|accessdate=October 8, 2018}}</ref> *2016 Herty Medal<ref>{{Cite web|title=Herty Medal to Brooks Pate {{!}} Chemical & Engineering News|url=https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i20/Herty-Medal-Brooks-Pate.html?type=paidArticleContent|website=cen.acs.org|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref> * 2008 Fellow of the American Physical Society * 2001 MacArthur Fellows Program<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2001/34/pate.html |title=Inside UVA |accessdate=April 21, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608043655/http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2001/34/pate.html |archivedate=June 8, 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref> * 1999 Coblentz Award * 1998 Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar
==Works== *"Distinguishing Tunneling Pathways for Two Chiral Conformer Pairs of 1,3-Propanediol from the Microwave Spectrum". Plusquellic DF, Lovas FJ, Pate BH, Neill JL, Muckle MT, Remijan AJ. ''J Phys Chem A''. October 13, 2009. *"Semiexperimental Equilibrium Structure for the C-6 Backbone of cis-1,3,5-Hexatriene; Structural Evidence for Greater pi-Electron Delocalization with Increasing Chain Length in Polyenes". Suenram RD, Pate BH, Lesarri A, Neill JL, Shipman S, Holmes RA, Leyden MC, Craig NC. ''J. Phys. Chem. A''. 113, 1864-1868 (2009). *"Conformational isomerization kinetics of pent-1-en-4-yne with 3,330 cm(-1) of internal energy measured by dynamic rotational spectroscopy". Dian BC, Brown GG, Douglass KO, Rees FS, Johns JE, Nair P, Suenram RD, Pate BH. ''PNAS''. 105, 12696-12700 (2008). *"Gas-phase conformational distributions for the 2-alkylalcohols 2-pentanol and 2-hexanol from microwave spectroscopy". Tubergen MJ, Conrad AR, Chavez RE, Hwang I, Suenram RD, Pajski JJ, Pate BH. ''J. Mol. Spec''. 251, 330-338 (2008). *"A broadband Fourier transform microwave spectrometer based on chirped pulse excitation". Brown GG, Dian BC, Douglass KO, Geyer SM, Shipman ST, Pate BH. ''Review of Scientific Instruments''. 79, 053103 (2008)
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==External links== *[https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=author:BH+author:Pate&hl=en&lr=&as_subj=chm "BH Pate"], ''Google Scholar'' {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2018}}
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