Biography:Deborah K. Watson
Deborah Kay Watson is an American physicist known for her work on the many-body problem in quantum mechanics.[1] She is a professor emerita of physics at the University of Oklahoma.[2]
Education and career
Watson is a 1972 graduate of Allegheny College and completed her Ph.D. in chemistry in 1977 at Harvard University.[2] Her dissertation was in two parts, I. Time-dependent Hartree–Fock studies of small molecular systems and II. Adiabatic and resonance states of Li2 and dissociative recombination of Li2+, and was supervised by Alexander Dalgarno.[3]
Watson was a postdoctoral researcher in chemistry at the California Institute of Technology before joining the University of Oklahoma faculty.[4] She served two terms as chair of the Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Community of the American Physical Society (APS), in 2005–2006 and 2006–2007.[5] She retired from the University of Oklahoma in 2016.[6]
Recognition
Watson was named the Edith Kinney Gaylor Presidential Professor of Physics at the University of Oklahoma in 2004.[7]
In 2020 she was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society, after a nomination from the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, "for the innovative use of group theory and graphical techniques toward the solution of the quantum many-body problem".[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "2020 Fellows nominated by the Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics", APS Fellows Archive, https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2020&unit_id=DAMOP, retrieved 2020-11-10
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Deborah Watson, professor, emeritus, University of Oklahoma Homer L. Dodge Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, https://www.nhn.ou.edu/people/watson, retrieved 2020-11-10
- ↑ Deborah K. Watson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Information for students, Caltech, 1979–1980, p. 100, https://caltechcampuspubs.library.caltech.edu/150/1/1979-1980.pdf, retrieved 2020-11-10
- ↑ List of Chairs and Secretaries of TAMOC, APS Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, https://www.aps.org/units/damop/resources/tamoc/officers.cfm, retrieved 2020-11-10
- ↑ List of Retirees for 2016, University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences, https://www.ou.edu/cas/news/news-items/list-of-retirees-for-2016, retrieved 2020-11-10
- ↑ "Faculty honored", Φyast Φlyer (University of Oklahoma Homer L. Dodge Dept. of Physics and Astronomy) 12 (2): 2, Spring 2004, https://www.nhn.ou.edu/assets/newsletters/v12n2.pdf
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