Dr. Raymond Kapral

Raymond Kapral of the Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, has made signfficant contributions to the theory of condensed-phase reaction dynamics. He developed microscopic descriptions, based on kinetic theory and molecular dynamics, for the role that the solvent plays in determining the outcome of a reactive event in solution. He has devised new methods for the study of complex, far-from-equilibrium, reacting media and has investigated fundamental issues related to the emergence of macroscopic chemical patterns from the microscopic and mesoscopic scales. He has explored the new kinds of chemistry that occurs on small scales in clusters and condensed media.