Philip C. Cosby
Senior Chemical Physicist,
Ion Spectroscopy Program
Molecular Physics Laboratory
Pure and Applied Physical Sciences Division
SRI International
Menlo Park, CA 94025
E-mail: <cosby@mplvax.sri.com>
Phone: (650) 859-5128, Fax: (650) 859-6196
Specialized Professional Competence
Photodissociation, spectroscopy, structure, and gas phase interactions
of molecules and molecular ions
Representative Research Assignments at SRI (Since 1974)
- Photodetachment and photodissociation cross sections of ions
- Photofragment spectroscopy of molecular ions
- Deexcitation of excited ions
- High-resolution spectroscopy of molecular ions
- Ion-molecule reactions and transport coefficients
- Electron-impact dissociation of neutral molecules
Academic Background
- B.S. in chemistry (1967), Virginia Military Institute;
- M.S. (1969) and Ph.D. (1974) in chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
Professional Associations and Honors
- American Physical Society (Fellow),
- American Geophysical Union,
- NSF summer teaching traineeship;
- Sigma Xi Research Award for Ph.D. thesis research;
- Sigma Xi
Publications
- Eighty publications on the interaction of photons with ions and
molecules, translational-to-vibrational energy transfer in ion-molecule
collisions, ion-molecule reactions, electron-impact dissociation, and
related subjects