James Wishart
Profile Information
- Name
- Dr. James Wishart
- Institution
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Position
- Distinguished Chemist
- Affiliation
- ACS
- h-Index
- 42
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-0488-7636
- Biography
- <p style="margin: 0 0 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif">Ph. D. in Inorganic Chemistry, Stanford University, 1985 (Advisor: Henry Taube, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1983)</span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"></span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif">Distinguished Chemist in the Chemistry Division of Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he has worked since 1987. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif">Studying the physical chemistry and radiation chemistry of ionic liquids, and recently molten salts, for 22 years.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif">Director of the Molten Salts in Extreme Environments Energy Frontier Research Center since 2018. Group Leader of the Electron- and Photo-Indiced Processes Group, which includes the Laser-Electron Accelerator Facility (LEAF) for picosecond pulse radiolysis that he built in the 1990s. Received the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Medal from the Polish Radiation Research Society in 2019, for his distinguished achievements in the field of radiation chemistry and long-lasting and productive cooperation with Polish scientists.</span></p>
- Expertise
- Ionic Liquids, Radiation Chemistry