Jean-Claude Lorquet

Born September 19, 1935 in Liège, Belgium.

Professor emeritus, University of Liège, Belgium.

Email:jc.lorquet@ulg.ac.be

Stas-Spring Prize, Académie Royale de Belgique (1960); Walter Mund Prize, Belgian Chemical Society (1965); Wetrems Prize, Académie Royale de Belgique (1969); Medal, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1991).

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Important Contributions:

• Theory of mass spectra.
• Study of reaction paths and of dissociation mechanisms of electronically excited molecular ions.
• Nonadiabatic interactions: Avoided crossings and conical intersections.
• Transition probabilities between two coupled potential energy surfaces.
• Statistical calculation of rate constants of nonadiabatic reactions.
• Validity of statistical theories of unimolecular reactions under collision-free conditions.
• Study of intramolecular vibrational energy relaxation, of phase space sampling and of unimolecular laws of decay via autocorrelation functions.
• Product energy distributions: Translational energy release studied by the maximum entropy method.
• Dynamical constraints and adiabatic invariants in chemical reactions.