1982 - Present | Professor of Chemistry, Adjunct professor of Physics, and Chemical Engineering, The University of Alabama in Huntsville | |
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1981 - 1982 | Manager, General Electric Company ‐ Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory: Radiochemistry Unit | |
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1970 - 1981 | Research Physicist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory ‐ Health Physics Division | |
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1969 - 1970 | Captain, U.S. Army | |
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Research Interests
Grants
2015 - 2016 | "Role of Sinusoidal Oscillations in the Bridgman Growth of CdZnTe Crystals" |
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center | |
$7,800 | |
2005 - 2007 | "Cosmic Ray Shielding Materials" |
NASA/MSFC | |
$36,000 | |
2002 - 2005 | "The Consolute Point Battery" |
U.S. Army/SMDC | |
$113,000 | |
2001 - 2002 | "Viscosity of Molten HgZnTe" |
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center | |
$15,000 | |
1994 - 2002 | "Protein Crystal Growth Kinetics" |
National Institutes of Health | |
$207,000 | |
2001 | "Chemical Equilibrium at the Critical Point of Solution" |
Alabama NASA EPSCOR | |
$12,500 | |
1995 - 2001 | "Lysozyme Crystal Growth" |
Southeastern Universities Research Association | |
$42,000 | |
1995 - 2000 | "Chemical Kinetics at the Critical Point of Solution |
Petroleum Research Fund of the America Chemical Society | |
$25,000 | |
1994 - 2000 | "Hydrogen Diffusion in Metals" |
Naval Research Laboratory | |
$51,000 | |
1999 | "Thermoelectricity" |
Air Force Office of Scientific Research | |
$40,000 | |
1997 | "Electrophoretic Mobility of Protein Crystals" |
Alabama Space Grant Consortium | |
$10,000 | |
1995 - 1997 | "Shock Waves and Solids" |
Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base | |
$59,800 | |
1986 - 1997 | "Solution Phase Diffusion" |
NASA Sponsored UAH Consortium for Materials Development in Space | |
$206,000 | |
1994 - 1996 | "Thermal Plasma Production of Nitric Acid" |
Alabama Space Grant Consortium | |
$10,000 | |
1990 - 1993 | "Kinetics of Diffusional Droplet Growth in a Liquid Two-Phase System |
NASA Headquarters | |
$104,700 | |
1984 - 1992 | "Electron Transport in Liquid Hydrocarbons" |
Petroleum Research Fund of the America Chemical Society | |
$15,000 | |
1988 - 1991 | "Plasma Chemistry of Ammonia" |
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center | |
$154,000 | |
1985 - 1990 | "Protein Crystal Growth" |
NASA Headquarters | |
$288,957 | |
1984 - 1987 | "Crystal Growth in the System Hg/Cd/Te" |
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center | |
$85,000 | |
1984 - 1986 | "Ostwald Ripening" |
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center | |
$74,255 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
Present | American Chemical Society, Member | Present | American Physical Society, Member |
Honors and Awards
- Defense Atomic Support Agency Certificate of Achievement, 1970
- NATO Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Oxford University, England, 1979-1982
- American Chemical Society, Carolina-Piedmont Section, CHarles H. Stone Award for Research, 1991
- American Society for Engineering Education Distinguished Summer Faculty Research Fellow, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 1993
- Summer Faculty Research Fellow, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 2001
- University of Alabama in Huntsville Foundation Award in Research and Creative Achievement in the Physical Sciences, 2008
- University of Alabama in Huntsville Student Government Association Outstanding Teacher Award, 1996
- Alpha Lambda Delta Freshma Honor Society Best Teacher of the Year Award, 1997
- University of Alabama in Huntsville College of Science Dean's Service Award, 2001
Courses
- CH 101: Introduction to Chemistry
- CH 121/CH 123: General Chemistry I and II
- CH 341: Chemical Thermodynamics
- CH 342: Chemical Kinetics
- CH 343: Quantum Chemistry
- CH 346: Experimental Physical Chemistry II
- CH 347/CH 348: Biophysical Chemistry
- CH 640: Advanced Chemical Dynamics
- CH 641: Statistical Thermodynamics
- CH 642: Advanced Chemical Dynamics
- CH 643: Quantum Chemistry
- CH 644: Chemical Electrodynamics
- CH 746: Solid State Chemistry
- PH 560/PH 561: Solid State Physics
- PH 621: Statistical Mechanics and Kinetic Theory I
1969 | Ph.D. in Chemical Physics, Harvard University | |
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1965 | M.A. in Physics, Harvard University | |
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1963 | B.S. in Chemistry, Yale University | |
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Contact Information
301 Sparkman Drive
Materials Science Building
Room 115
Huntsville, AL 35899
james.baird@uah.edu
256-824-6441