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John D. Scott 1. PERSONAL

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Born at San Antonio, Texas on August 8, 1944.

Education

• Primary and Secondary Education, San Antonio Independent School District
• Baylor University, B. S. in Chemistry - 1967.
• North Texas State University, Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry under the direction of Dr. B. Russell - degree conferred 1974.

Present Position  Scientific Director at the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices

Address and Phones

• Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices
• 
  Louisiana State University
  Baton Rouge, LA  70803
• Office Telephone: (225) 388-8887
• Lab Telephone: (225) 388-4605
• Fax: (225) 388-6954
• Email:  scott@lsu.edu

Familial Status Wife, Ann R. Scott; Children:  Ian, Maris and Alyssa

Interests, Hobbies and Community Involvement

• Fly fishing, traveling around and hiking in the Western US with family, wood working, auto mechanics and working around home and yard comprise the majority of outside leisure-time interests.
• Teacher and Decon at Southside Baptist Curch, Baton Rouge, LA.

Honors

• State of Texas Predoctoral Fellowship
• Alpha Chi Honor Society
• Sigma Xi Honorary Research Society

Citations

• Who's Who in Technology
• Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges
• American Men and Women of Science

Memberships and Appointments

• American Chemical Society (Montana Section Chair 1986, Secretary 1979-80 and Chair of Chemical Education)
• Montana Academy of Science (Vice President, Physical Sciences 1983)
• Optical Society of America (Judge, 1993 International Science and Engineering Fair)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science

Reviewer for

• Nuclear Instruments and Methods
• Reveiw of Scientific Instruments
• Journal of Chemical Physics

Correspondent for

• Synchrotron Radiation News

Other Appointments

• Chemistry Teacher, John Marshall High School (San Antonio, Texas), 1967-1969.
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Molecular Spectroscopy Group, Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA), 1975-1978.
• Assistant and Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Montana (Missoula, MT), 1978-1990,  tenure, 1984
• Visiting Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), Summers 1985-1987.
• Staff Member, Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA), 1990-Present.
• Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Monroe (formerly NLU) (Monroe, Louisiana), 1993-Present.

Funding (since 1988)

• Principal Investigator, IBM grant to design X-ray lithography beamines for use by CAMD and IBM, $65,000 per annum for three years (1/89-12/91)
• Co-Principal Investigator, DOE, Argonne National Laboratory, funding and equipment valued at ca. $750,000 (1993)
• Technical Director, NSF instrumentation grant to construct a normal-incidence-monochromator for performing high-resolution spectroscopy at CAMD in the visible through vacuum-ultraviolet spectral regions.  Responsible for the design of the instrumentation.  $527,000, NSF; $560,000 cost sharing by 5 universities; total, $1,087,000  (10/95-9/97)
• Principal Investigator, State of Louisiana, LEQSF (University System Board of Regents) program for beamline construction, $132,000, approved, but funds not available. (7/96-6/97)

2. RESEARCH INTERESTS

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Principal research interests are in molecular spectroscopy; particularly in the VUV spectral region; emphasis on determining structures of molecules in Rydberg and ion states.

• determination of ionization potentials and development of models to relate these energies for series of similar molecules.
• determination of electronically-excited-molecular geometries.
• investigation of the effects of Stark fields to determine permanent electric dipole moments and mean electric polarizabilities of Rydberg molecules (measured and interpreted the first electrochromism spectra of Rydberg transitions).
• MCD spectrsocopy; measured the first MCD spectra of Rydberg transitions and developed a model for interpretation in the context of spin-orbit and vibronic couplings and of electronic symmetries.
• gas-phase solvatochromism; measurement and interpretation of the spectral morphologies induced by pertrubing low-pressure readiation-absorbing molecular samples with high-pressure non-absorbing gases.  Development of a model in the context of intermolecular forces for absorber molecules in low-n Rydberg states.
• experimental applications of synchrotron radiation; includes deep-ultravioloet and X-ray optic design, X-ray lightography and micromachining processes and materials and quantitative and qualitative analytic techniques for commerical applications at a synchrotron radiation facility.

3. TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND STUDENT ADVISEMENT

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A. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

    In addition to the two-year experience of high-school-chemistry teaching (both first and second year courses) and extensive teaching-assistant experience in graduate school (I had a full-time teaching assistantship for nine of the ten academic-year semesters that I was in school), I was a faculty member at the University of Montana from 1978 to 1990 (on leave 6/88 - 6/90).  My teaching responsibilities included:

• General Chemistry, lecture and laboratory, for science majors.
•  Instrumental Methods for chemistry majors and a one-quarter course for non-majors.
•  Undergraduate Physical Chemistry, all three quarters of the one-year majors course.
•  Group Theory
•  Graduate Quantum Chemistry
•  Graduate Molecular Spectroscopy
•  Graduate Thermodynamics
•  Optical-System; Physics, Design and Engineering

B. UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE RESEARCH ADVISING

     I have directed research programs of approximately 15-20 undergraduates.

     In addition, I have directed six senior-honors-thesis students.  These students each received a university fellowship in the amount of $1000 - $1200 and wrote a thesis at the conclusion of their research work.  The majority of these students went to graduate school and have been very successful in their research.  Some of the institutions at which they have accomplished this success are; University of Oregon, University of Utah, University of Arizona and Stanford University.

Graduate Committee Activity and Theses Directed:

    I have served on the graduate-thesis committees of over 25 M.S. and Ph.D. students in Chemistry, Geology, Math, Physics, Education, Electrical Engineering and Nuclear Science.  I have been Research Director for seven graduate students in Physical Chemistry.
 

4. PUBLICATIONS

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In this section are listed research papers, books, book reviews and chapters in books. Abstracts are not listed.

Research Papers:

1. J.D. Scott and B.R. Russell, "The Vacuum Ultraviolet Absorption Spectrum of 1,1-Dichloro-2,2-difluoroethylene," Chem. Phys. Lett. 9, 375 (1971).
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3. J.D. Scott and B.R. Russell, "Vacuum Ultraviolet Studies of Several Chlorofluoroethylenes," J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 94, 2634 (1973).
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5. J.D. Scott and B.R. Russell, "Vacuum Ultraviolet Absorption Spectra of Methyl-Substituted Allenes," J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 95, 1429 (1973).
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7. J.D. Scott, G.C. Causley and B.R. Russell, "Electronic Absorption Spectra of Dimethylsulfide, Dimethylselenide and Dimethyltelluride," J. Chem. Phys. 59, 6577 (1973).
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9. J.D. Scott and B.R. Russell, "Electronic Symmetries, Dipole Moments and Polarizabilities of Molecules in Rydberg States Determined from Electric-Field Effects on Absorption Spectra," J. Chem. Phys. 63, 3243 (1975).
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11. G.C. Causley, J.D. Scott and B.R. Russell, "Gas-Phase Electrochromism Studies in the Vacuum Ultraviolet," Rev. Sci. Instrum. 48, 264 (1977).
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13. J.D. Scott, W.S. Felps and S.P. McGlynn, "Field Effects in the Vacuum Ultraviolet," Nucl. Instrum. Meth. 152, 231 (1978).
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15. J.D. Scott, W.S. Felps, G.L. Findley and S.P. McGlynn, "The MCD Spectrum of the First s-Rydberg System in Methyliodide," J. Chem. Phys. 68, 4678 (1978).
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17. S.P. McGlynn, W.S. Felps, J.D. Scott and G.L. Findley, "MCD of Methylbromide," J. Chem. Phys. 72, 421 (1980).
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19. S.P. McGlynn, W.S. Felps, J.D. Scott and G.L. Findley, "Vibronic Doubling in Methyliodide," J. Chem. Phys. 73, 4925 (1980).
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21. W.S. Felps, J.D. Scott, G.L. Findley and S. P. McGlynn, "Vibronic Doubling in Alkylbromides," J. Chem. Phys. 74, 4832 (1981).
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23. S.P. McGlynn, J.D. Scott and W.S. Felps, "Molecular Rydberg Spectroscopy:  Magnetic Field Effects in Alkyl Halides," J. Phys. 43, C2-305 (1982).
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25. B.C. Craft, A.M. Findley, G.L. Findley, S.P. McGlynn, J.D. Scott and F.H. Watson, "LSU Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices," Rev. Sci. Instrum. 60, 2144-2147 (1989).
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27. B.C. Craft, A.M. Findley, G.L. Findley, J.D. Scott and F.H. Watson, "Status Report on the CAMD Project," Nucl. Instr. Meth. B40/41, 379 (1989).
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29. B.C. Craft, V. Saile, J.D. Scott and E. Morikawa, "Utilization of a commercially supplied synchrotron radiation source," Nucl. Instr. Meth. B56/57, 379 (1991).
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31. E. Morikawa, J.D. Scott, E.D. Poliakoff, R.L. Stockbauer, V. Saile, "Design of a soft x-ray plane-grating monochromator for CAMD," Rev. Sci. Instrum. 63, 1300-1304 (1992).
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33. B.C. Craft, M. Feldman, E. Morikawa, E.D. Poliakoff, V. Saile, J.D. Scott and R.L. Stockbauer, "Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD)", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 63, 1561 (1992).
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35. E. Morikawa, J.D. Scott and V. Saile, "Adaptive Optics for Resolution/Throughput Optimization; Variable-radius Mirror Application for a PGM," Nucl. Instr. Meth. A119, 116 (1992)
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37. H. Bluem and J.D. Scott, "Status of and plans for the synchrotron radiation dedicated facilities at LSU-CAMD," Nucl. Instr. Meth. B99, 274 (1995).
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39. W.S. Felps, J.D. Scott and S.P. McGlynn, “Magnetic circular dichroism of CD3I in the vacuum ultraviolet,” J. Chem. Phys. 104, 419 (1996).
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41. E.E. Waali, J.D. Scott, Y. Vladimirsky, O. Vladimirsky and M. Klopf, “One and Two-Dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra of X-ray-Degraded Poly(methyl methacrylate),” Macromolecules 30, 2386 (1997).
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43. J. Li, M.L. Marceau-Day, L.M. Scott and J.D. Scott, “Techniques for determining electron losses at a 1.5 GeV synchrotron light source,” Health Physics Journal 73, 794-799 (1997).

Chapters in Books:

1. J.D. Scott, G.C. Causley and B.R. Russell, Correlation of Molecular and Rare-Gas Term Values, in Chemical Spectroscopy and Photochemistry in the Vacuum Ultraviolet, (D. Reidel, Boston, 1974), p. 403.

 

2. J.D. Scott, Perturbation Spectroscopy, in Photophysics and Photochemistry in the Vacuum Ultraviolet, (D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1985), 729-763.

 

3. V. Saile and J.D. Scott, Chapter 15: Conventional Facilities, in Synchrotron Radiation Sources - A Primer, (World Scientific Publishers, New Jersey), ed. H. Winick, 409 (1994).

 

Other Publications:

1. J.D. Scott, H.P. Bluem, B.C. Craft, L. Marceau-Day, A. Mihill, E. Morikawa, V. Saile, Y. Vladimirsky and O. Vladimirsky, "CAMD - the new synchrotron light source in Louisiana," SPIE Proceedings 1736, 117-128 (1992).
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3. Y. Vladimirsky, J.D. Scott and P.K. Bhattacharya, "Ionization Radiation Effects and Mechanisms," Mat. Res. Soc. Proc. Vol. 306, 21-27 (1993).
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5. E.E. Waali, J.D. Scott, O. Vladimirsky, Y. Vladimirsky, K.M. Hayataka and J.M. Klopf, “400 and 750 MHz One- and Two-Dimensional NMR Spectra of X-Ray-Degraded Poly(Methyl Methacrylate), Comparison with UV-Degraded Material,” Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 3331, 518-524 (1998).
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Other Scholarly Contributions:

     I have contributed lectures (and posters on several occasions) at more than thirty scientific meetings in the US and Europe.

     In addition to the contributed papers, I have been invited to give papers at more than twenty universities, industrial research laboratories and scientific meetings throughout the US, in Europe and in South America.

     I also have given public lectures to school classes (from elementary through high school), civic organizations and clubs, and professional groups.  A conservative estimate of the number of such talks is one hundred.  These lectures have covered subjects from philosophy and practice of science to description of the CAMD facility.  I was particularly active in undergraduate recruitment while a faculty member at the University of Montana and presented a number of talks and lab demonstrations on a variety of subjects ranging from "Careers in Chemistry" to "Science and the Shroud of Turin."  At CAMD, I am frequently requested by individuals, from both inside and outside the LSU community, to present talks (in a number of instances, to give lectures in science and engineering undergraduate and graduate classes) dealing with the subjects of CAMD, X-ray sources and spectroscopies, X-ray lithography and various topics in photochemistry and photophysics.
 

5. INVITED LECTURES, PLENARY LECTURES AND SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED

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1. Grating-Monochromator Workshop at BESSY, Berlin,  4/91, “Design of the New PGM Beamline at CAMD,” April, 1991.

 

2. SPIE Meeting on X-Ray Detector Physics and Applications, “CAMD – The New Synchrotron Light Source in Louisiana,” June, 1992.

 

3. . LNLS (Brazilian Synchrotron Radiation Source) User Workshop, “Modelling the Production and Utilization of Synchrotron Radiation,” December, 1993.

 

4. Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation 95, “SHADOW Representation of Linear and Circular Polarization,” November, 1995.

 

5. National Synchrotron Light Source Users Meeting, “Potential of Infrared Spectroscopy at CAMD,” January, 1996.

 

6. International Association of Scientific Glassblowers Convention, “CAMD, An Example of High Technology in Louisiana,” June, 1996.
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6. PAPERS (UNINVITED) SUBMITTED TO CONFERENCES AND READ THEREAT

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1. "VUV Studies of Substitured Ethylenic Systems," 25th Symposium on Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University, September, 1970.

 

2. "The Far Ultraviolet Spectra of Chlorofluoroethylenes," 26th Symposium on Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University, June, 1971.

 

3. "Electronic Absorption Spectra of Dimethylsulfide, Dimethylselenide and Dimethyltelluride," 28th Symposium on Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University, June, 1973.

 

4. 30th Symposium on Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University, June, 1975:

 

1.  "Electrochromism of Acetone."
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3.  "Electrochromism of Dimethylsulfide."
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5.  "MCD Spectra of Methyl Iodide and Hydrogen Iodide in the Vacuum Ultraviolet," 31st Symposim on Molecular Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University, June, 1976.

 

6. "Excited-State Geometries of Olefinic Freons," 27th Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, December, 1971.

 

7. "Electronic Absorption Spectra of Methyl-Substituted Allenes," 28th Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, December, 1972.

 

8. "Transition Polarization and Dipole Moments of Excited Electronic States," 30th Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, December, 1974.

 

9. 32nd Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, December, 1976:

 

1. "The MCD Spectrum of the First s-Rydberg State of Methyl Iodide."
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3. "The MCD Spectrum of the First p-Rydberg States of Methyl Iodide."
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10. The 4th Annual Symposium on Molecular Electronic Structure and Spectroscopy,  Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, May 13 - 14, 1976:

 

1. "Theory of Magnetic Circular Dichroism."
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3. "MCD Spectrum of Methyl Iodide."
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11. "Field Effects in the Vacuum Ultraviolet," Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation and Developments, Orsay, France, September 12-14, 1977.

 

12. "MCD in the Vacuum Ultraviolet," Exxon Research and Development Laboratories, Linden, New Jersey, April 10, 1978.

 

13. "MCD of Methyliodide," Meeting of the Montana Academy of Sciences, Dillon, MT, April, 1979.

 

14. "Field-Effect Spectroscopy," Montana State University, May, 1979.

 

15. 7th Annual Symposium on Molecular Electronic Structure and Spectroscopy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, May, 1979:

 

1. "A Pseudopotential Model for Atomic Rydberg States."
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3. "The VUV Spectroscopy Facility at the University of Montana."
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16. Meeting of the Montana Academy of Sciences, Missoula, MT, April, 1981:

 

1. "A Theoretical Model for Atomic Rydberg States," S. Waykole and J. Scott.
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3. "Pressure-Effect Studies of Molecular Rydberg Transitions," J. Adolph and J. Scott.
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17. Northwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Bozeman, Montana, June, 1981:

 

1. "Electric-Field Effects in the Vacuum Ultraviolet," D. Burnes and J. Scott.
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3. "MCD of Methyliodide," J. Scott.
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18. "Perturbation Effects on Absorption Spectra," Montana College of Mineral Sciences and Technology, December, 1981.

 

19. NATO Advanced Studies Institute on Photophysics and Photochemistry in the Vacuum Ultraviolet, August, 1982:

 

1. "MCD Spectroscopy in the Vacuum Ultraviolet."
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3. "Perturbation Spectroscopy in the Vacuum Ultraviolet."
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20. "Pressure Effects on Rydberg Transitions," J. Adolph, D. Bestwick and J. Scott, 38th Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University, June, 1983.

 

21. Montana Section Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 26, 1988:

 

1. "A Square-Well Model for the Interaction Potential of CH3I and SF6: A Study of  Molecular Rydberg States," D. Bennett and J. Scott.
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3. "Lennard-Jones Parameters for the Interaction between Rydberg-State CH3I and SF6,"  D. Burnes and J. Scott.
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5. "Theoretical Studies of Absorption-Band Profiles Using Fourier Transforms," M. El-    Mekki  and J. Scott.
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7. "Storage Rings as Radiation Sources," J. Scott and G. Findley.
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22. Dept Chem.  UALR 1992

 

23. NLU, 1994 (?)

 

24. SU, College of Engineering

 

25. SU, Dept of EE 1995

 

26. SU, Chemistry 1994

 

27. UW Parkside, 10/94

 

28. LSU, Physics 5/96

 

29. LSU, EE (?)

 

30. SRI, 10/95

 

31. IBM, Baton Rouge 91(?)

 

32. EPSCoR Conference, 11/96

 

33. LNLS User Workshop, Modelling the production and Utilization of Synchrotron Radiation, 12/93

 

34. Grating Monochromator Workshop at BESSY, Berlin,  4/91

 

35. SRI 95, APS, Nov. 1995, SHADOW representation of Linear and Circular Polarization
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37. Glassblowers Convention, 6/96, CAMD, An Example of High Technology in Louisiana

 

38. NSLS Users Meeting, Potential of Infrared Spectroscopy at CAMD, January, 1996

 

39. SPIE Meeting on X-Ray Detector Physics and Applications, “CAMD – The New Synchrotron Light Source in Louisiana.”
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