Tom G. Slanger
Senior Staff Scientist,
Aeronomy Program
Molecular Physics Laboratory
SRI International
Menlo Park, CA 94025
E-mail: <slanger@mplvax.sri.com>
Phone: (650) 859-2764, Fax: (650) 859-6196
Specialized Professional Competence
Ultraviolet photolysis of simple molecules; photosensitization
investigations; energy transfer studies; homogeneous and heterogeneous
recombination of oxygen atoms; terrestrial and planetary airglows;
space shuttle glow investigation; radiative lifetime measurements;
predissociation studies
Representative Research Assignments at SRI (Since 1966)
- Photosensitization reactions
- Oxygen and nitrogen atom reactions
- Chemiluminescence of simple gases
- Electronic-to-vibrational energy transfer
- Molecular perturbation effects
- Spectral synthesis of afterglows and airglow
- Oxygen atom recombination (heterogeneous and homogeneous)
- UV multiphoton dissociation
- Advanced laser techniques
- Metastable atoms and molecules
Other Professional Experience
- Investigated ultraviolet photolysis of carbon dioxide, Centre
d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay, Department de Chimie Physique, Saclay (France)
Academic Background
- B.S. in applied chemistry (1956) and M.S. in chemical engineering (1957), California
Institute of Technology;
- Ph.D. in chemistry (1965), University of California (Los Angeles)
Language Proficiency
Publications
- One hundred and forty publications in various areas of ultraviolet
photolysis, chemiluminescence, energy transfer, spectroscopy, planetary
airglows, and space vehicle glows