For the painter, see Robert Field (painter) Robert W. Field (born June 13, 1944) is the Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been a professor since 1974.
He was a postdoc with Herbert Broida at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
He is a physical chemist, specializing in spectroscopy of small molecules in the gas phase.
He is also particularly known for studies of the molecules acetylene (C2H2) and calcium fluoride (CaF) in the gas phase.
His active research group at MIT includes about eight graduate students and postdocs working on experimental, theoretical and computational physical chemistry of small molecules in the gas phase.