# Mark Child

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British chemist

Mark Sheard Child Born (1937-08-17) 17 August 1937 (age 88) Alma mater Clare College, Cambridge Awards Fellow of the Royal Society Scientific career Institutions University of Oxford Thesis The vibrational spectra of electronically degenerate molecules (1963) Doctoral advisor H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins[1] Doctoral students Peter Coveney[2] Website research.chem.ox.ac.uk/mark-child.aspx

**Mark Sheard Child** [FRS](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society) (born 17 August 1937)[3] is a British [chemist](/source/Chemist), and Emeritus Fellow of [St Edmund Hall, Oxford](/source/St_Edmund_Hall%2C_Oxford).

## Education

Child attended [Pocklington School](/source/Pocklington_School) from 1947 to 1955.[4] He earned his [Doctor of Philosophy](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy) degree from the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge) in 1963 with a thesis on *The vibrational spectra of electronically degenerate molecules*.

## Research

Child's research interests include semiclassical mechanics,[5] Molecular [collision theory](/source/Collision_theory),[6] [Rydberg states](/source/Rydberg_state)[7][8][9][10] and [Quantum Level Structures](/source/Fine_structure) at a [Saddle point](/source/Saddle_point).[11][12][13][14]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-doctoraldvisor_1-0)** ["Chemistry Tree - Mark S. Child Details"](http://academictree.org/chemistry/peopleinfo.php?pid=67442).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-coveneyphd_2-0)** Coveney, Peter V (1985). [*Semiclassical methods in scattering and spectroscopy*](https://web.archive.org/web/20220320003412/https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?docId=oxfaleph016235950) (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. Archived from [the original](http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?docId=oxfaleph016235950) on 20 March 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [CHILD, Prof. Mark Sheard](http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U10813), *Who's Who 2014*, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Professor Mark Child FRS (1947-1955)"](https://www.oldpocklingtonians.com/news/eminent-ops/62/62-Professor-Mark-Child-FRS-1947-). *Old Pocklingtonians*. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Mark Child (1991). *Semiclassical mechanics with molecular applications*. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-19-855654-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-855654-1).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Mark Child (1996). *Molecular collision theory*. New York: Dover Publications. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-486-69437-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-486-69437-5).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Mark Child (2011). *Theory of Molecular Rydberg States (Cambridge Molecular Science)*. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-521-76995-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-76995-2).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Child, M. S.; Jungen, C. (1990). "Quantum defect theory for asymmetric tops: Application to the Rydberg spectrum of H2O". *The Journal of Chemical Physics*. **93** (11): 7756. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[1990JChPh..93.7756C](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990JChPh..93.7756C). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1063/1.459355](https://doi.org/10.1063%2F1.459355).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Child, M. S. (1997). "The Rydberg states of H2O". *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences*. **355** (1729): 1623–1636. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[1997RSPTA.355.1623C](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997RSPTA.355.1623C). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1098/rsta.1997.0080](https://doi.org/10.1098%2Frsta.1997.0080). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [93739122](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:93739122).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Hiyama, M.; Child, M. S. (2002). "Ab initio R-matrix/multichannel quantum defect theory study of nitric oxide". *Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics*. **35** (5): 1337. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2002JPhB...35.1337H](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002JPhB...35.1337H). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1088/0953-4075/35/5/316](https://doi.org/10.1088%2F0953-4075%2F35%2F5%2F316). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [250830242](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:250830242).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** Child, M. S.; Weston, T.; Tennyson, J. (1999). "Quantum monodromy in the spectrum of H2O and other systems: New insight into the level structure of quasi-linear molecules". *Molecular Physics*. **96** (3): 371. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[1999MolPh..96..371C](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999MolPh..96..371C). [CiteSeerX](/source/CiteSeerX_(identifier)) [10.1.1.324.1149](https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.324.1149). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1080/00268979909482971](https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00268979909482971).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** Jacobson, M. P.; Child, M. S. (2001). "Spectroscopic signatures of bond-breaking internal rotation. II. Rotation-vibration level structure and quantum monodromy in HCP". *The Journal of Chemical Physics*. **114** (1): 262. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2001JChPh.114..262J](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001JChPh.114..262J). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1063/1.1330746](https://doi.org/10.1063%2F1.1330746).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** Child, M. S. (2007). "Quantum Monodromyand Molecular Spectroscopy". *Advances in Chemical Physics*. Vol. 136. pp. 39–02. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1002/9780470175422.ch2](https://doi.org/10.1002%2F9780470175422.ch2). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780470175422](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780470175422).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** Cooper, C. D.; Child, M. S. (2005). "Quantum level structures at a Fermi resonance with angular momentum: Classical periodic orbits, catastrophe maps and quantum monodromy". *Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics*. **7** (14): 2731–2739. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2005PCCP....7.2731C](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005PCCP....7.2731C). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1039/B502772C](https://doi.org/10.1039%2FB502772C). [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [16189587](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16189587).

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