Zare, Richard N.

Zare, Richard N. (Neil) (1939–  ) chemical physicist; born in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a research assistant at the University of Colorado (1964–65), taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1956–66), then returned to Colorado (1966–69). He became a chemistry professor at Columbia University (1969–77), where he developed laser fluorescence in the 1970s. He moved to Stanford (1977) and pursued research on fluorescence, chemiluminescence, and the applications of laser fluorescence to chemistry and biology.