George Chappell Schatz (born April 14, 1949), the Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, is a theoretical chemist best known for his seminal contributions to the fields of reaction dynamics and nanotechnology.
[1] At Clarkson, he was mentored by organic chemistry professor Richard Partsch, who encouraged him to spend a summer working at Argonne National Laboratory in 1971.
[4] His work has collectively received over 130,000 citations,[5] including a 2003 article on the optical properties of nanoparticles which has been cited more than 12,000 times.
Schatz has won the Ahmed Zewail Prize award of the journal Chemical Physics Letters for "outstanding contributions to the theory and understanding of gas-phase reaction dynamics, plasmonics, and nanostructured materials".
The biennial prize was developed by Elsevier to honor Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail, who was a longtime editor of the journal.