Richard Jeffrey Field
(* 1941 October 26 - 2022 December 4)
Education:
| 1963 | B.S. in Chemistry, University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
| 1964 | M.S. in Chemistry, College of the Holy Cross |
| 1968 | Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, University of Rhode Island |
| 1968-1970 | Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oregon with Richard M. Noyes |
Professional Experience:
| 1970-1973 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Oregon |
| 1974-1975 | Senior Research Chemist - Radiation Laboratory, Carnegie-Mellon University |
| 1975-1979 | Assistant Professor, The University of Montana |
| 1979-1984 | Associate Professor, The University of Montana |
| 1984-2005 | Professor, The University of Montana |
| 2005- | Professor Emeritus, The University of Montana |
Service:
| 1983-2007 | National American Chemical Society, Local-Section Tour Speaker |
| 1990-1996 | Chair, Department of Chemistry, The University of Montana |
| 1994-1996 | Assistant Director, Montana NSF-EPSCoR |
| 2015 | Member, Committee to Recruit First University of Montana Woman’s Softball Coach |
Honors and Awards:
| 1983 | Distinguished Scholar Award, The University of Montana |
| 1990 | Burlington Northern Award for Faculty Achievement, The University of Montana |
| 2002 | Alumni Achievement Award in Chemistry, University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences |
| 2005 | Dennison Faculty Award for Distinguished Achievement, The University of Montana |
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Festschrift for his 80th birthday in the Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 32(10) on 2022 October 27.
Obituary on the University of Montana Department of Chemistry website
Obituary on Garden City Funeral Home and Crematory
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Endre Kőrös, Dick Field, and Richard Noyes (1979)
Richard Field (2014)
Richard Field
Richard Field at IrvFest (2015)
Richard Field was a Professor at the University of Montana. He received his Ph.D at the University of Rhode Island in 1968. He is best known for his contribution to the Field-Kőrös-Noyes (FKN) mechanism which allows for the modeling of Belousov-Zhabotinsky reactions.
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