Prof. Wolfgang Jäger
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Alberta
Election Year
2008
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Chemistry
Department
Department of Chemistry
Keywords
Spectroscopy, Superfluidity, Helium Droplets, Trace Gas Sensing
Long Citation (for publication and press release)
Wolfgang Jäger is an outstanding experimentalist who is also a master of formalism and theory. He has made important contributions to the knowledge of three body interactions with his spectroscopic research on Van der Waals complexes. His studies on larger, helium containing clusters have defined a new research area, namely the study of matter in a size regime between the molecular and the mesoscopic scale. This research has produced a first: he and his collaborators traced the evolution of a bulk property, namely superfluidity, from the molecular scale with atom-by-atom resolution. Wolfgang Jäger is also co-founder of the Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy at the University of Alberta for development of laser based trace gas detectors for sensing of planetary atmospheres, breath analysis for medical applications, and industrial process control.
Short Citation (to be read at the Induction Ceremony)
Wolfgang Jäger is an outstanding experimentalist who is also a master of formalism and theory. He has made important contributions to the knowledge of three body interactions with his spectroscopic research on Van der Waals complexes. His studies on larger, helium containing clusters have defined a new research area, namely the study of matter in a size regime between the molecular and the mesoscopic scale.
Wolfgang Jäger is an outstanding experimentalist who is also a master of formalism and theory. He has made important contributions to the knowledge of three body interactions with his spectroscopic research on Van der Waals complexes. His studies on larger, helium containing clusters have defined a new research area, namely the study of matter in a size regime between the molecular and the mesoscopic scale. This research has produced a first: he and his collaborators traced the evolution of a bulk property, namely superfluidity, from the molecular scale with atom-by-atom resolution. Wolfgang Jäger is also co-founder of the Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy at the University of Alberta for development of laser based trace gas detectors for sensing of planetary atmospheres, breath analysis for medical applications, and industrial process control.
Short Citation (to be read at the Induction Ceremony)
Wolfgang Jäger is an outstanding experimentalist who is also a master of formalism and theory. He has made important contributions to the knowledge of three body interactions with his spectroscopic research on Van der Waals complexes. His studies on larger, helium containing clusters have defined a new research area, namely the study of matter in a size regime between the molecular and the mesoscopic scale.