Susquehanna Valley Section

November 2003 Meeting

The three hundred and forty fifth meeting of the Section will be held on Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA.

Dinner: 6:00 pm at the Bullfrog Brewery and Restaurant, 229 W. Fourth Street, Williamsport. Call 570-326-4700 for directions. Dinner will be from the menu. Please call or e-mail your reservations to Laura Printzenhoff (570-321-4180, printz@lycoming.edu) by November 7.

The meeting will begin at 8:00 pm in room G-09 of the Heim Science building on the Lycoming College campus. Parking is located in front of the Heim Building, at the corner of Mulberry Street and Washington Blvd.

Directions: From I-80, take Route 15 N (exit 30-B). Travel approximately 15 miles to Williamsport. Continue on 15 N over the Market Street Bridge (stay in the left lane). Follow the sign for the Business District. Go to the third traffic light and make a right on to Little League Blvd. Go 1 block to the stop sign and turn left on to Mulberry Street. Travel to the first traffic light and turn right on to Washington Blvd. The entrance to the parking lot will be on your right.

Electron Chemistry
Chemists routinely invoke electron transfer in the mechanism of a chemical reaction. In the context of my research, the electron is a reagent. We study individual electron-molecule interactions and observe products that include ions (both positive and negative) and radicals. The reactions observed are very sensitive to the relative kinetic energy of the participants. The reactive collisions are resonant with particular molecular orbitals. The products of this electron chemistry are exploited in the plasma chemical processing used in the fabrication of semiconductor devices and thus provide a practical motivation for my research.

Professor John ("Jack") Moore has been a professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Maryland for 34 years. He received a B.S. in mathematics from Carnegie Tech and the Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Johns Hopkins University. He has taught courses in general and physical chemistry throughout the undergraduate and graduate curriculum although hardly a year has gone by in which he has not taught freshman chemistry. Prof. Moore's research has centered on the study of the interaction of charged particles with matter.
An outgrowth of this work has been the development of instruments for use on spacecraft. He is the first author of the well-known book, Building Scientific Apparatus, and editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.