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Ronald Lovett

Ronald Lovett

Professor, Department of Chemistry
Degrees: 
Postdoctoral Fellow, Bell Labs
Ph.D. University of Rochester
B.A. Rice University
E-mail: 
rlovett@wustl.edu
Phone: 
314-935-6506
Fax: 
314-935-4481
Office: 
258 Radio Chemistry
Mailbox: 

Campus Box 1134

Research Interests

 

Selected Publications

"Interfacial Density Profile for Fluids in the Critical Region", F.P. Buff, R. Lovett and F.H. Stillinger, Jr., Phys. Rev. Letts. 15, 621 (1965).

"On the Stability of a Fluid Toward Solid Formation", R. Lovett, J. Chem. Phys. 66, 1225 (1977).

"Kinetic Instabilities in First Order Phase Transition", R. Lovett, P. Ortoleva and J. Ross, J. Chem. Phys. 69, 947 (1978).

"Resonance Calculations for Arbitrary Potentials", R. Yaris, J. Bendler, R. Lovett, C.M. Bender, and P.A. Fedders, Phys. Rev. A 18, 1816 (1978).

"The Constraint On The Integral Kernels Of Density Functional Theories Which Results From Insisting That There Be A Unique Solution For The Density Function", R. Lovett, J. Chem. Phys. 88, 7739 (1988).

Appointments

1977-present, Professor of Chemistry, Washington University
1971-1977, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Washington University
1967-1971, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Washington University
1965-1967, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Bell Laboratories

Courses

Chemistry 111 Introductory course emphasizing Structural ideas and Mass action ideas
Chemistry 422 Quantum Chemistry and Statistical Mechanics
Chemistry 424 Chemical Kinetics and Statistical Mechanics

Primary Faculty