Up for sale "Chemical Laser" George C. Pimentel Hand Signed Announcement Dated 1984.

2, 1922 – June 18, 1989) was the inventor of the chemical laser. He also developed the technique of matrix isolation in low-temperature chemistry. In theoretical

chemistry, he proposed the three-center four-electron

bond which is now accepted as the best simple model of hypervalent molecules. In

the late 1960s, Pimentel led the University of California team that designed

the infrared spectrometer for

the Mars Mariner 6 and 7 missions

that analyzed the surface and atmosphere of Mars. An

alumnus of University

of California, Los Angeles (B.S. 1943) and University of California,

Berkeley (Ph.D. 1949), Pimentel began teaching at Berkeley in

1949, where he remained until his death in 1989 with a stint in Washington at

the National Science

Foundation under the Carter administration.  

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