Dr David Husain 1937-2007
08 February 2008
It is with sadness that the Royal Society of Chemistry has learned of the death of Dr David Husain ScD, Emeritus Reader in Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.
Dr Husain was a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry since 1959. As well as being a prolific author in Faraday Transactions - the predecessor journal to PCCP - and a regular attendee at Faraday Discussions and Symposia, he received the RSC Corday-Morgan and Tilden Prizes.
His research focussed on the investigation of fundamental reactions by spectroscopic methods and was of importance in areas such as atmospheric and interstellar chemistry, flames, jet exhaust, aspects of atomic power plant, the silicon industry and lasers.
A selection of notable papers published by Dr Husain in RSC journals are given below:
Collisional quenching of electronically excited nitrogen atoms, N(22DJ, 22PJ) by time-resolved atomic absorption spectroscopy
D. Husain, L. J. Kirsch and J. R. Wiesenfeld, Faraday Discuss. Chem. Soc., 1972, 53, 201
DOI: 10.1039/DC9725300201
Kinetic study of electronically excited carbon atoms C(21S0)
David Husain and Peter E. Norris, Faraday Discuss. Chem. Soc., 1979, 67, 273
DOI: 10.1039/DC9796700273
The tilden lecture. Fundamental collisional processes of alkali and alkaline earth atoms studied by spectroscopic methods
David Husain, J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 2, 1989, 85, 85
DOI: 10.1039/F29898500085
Collisional dynamics of low energy states of atomic strontium following the generation of Sr(5s5p 1P1) in the presence of He and Ar
Carolina Redondo, Maria N. Sanchez Rayo, José A. Fernández, David Husain and Fernando Castaño, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2004, 6, 391
DOI: 10.1039/b311711a
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