CHARLES HARRIS

Charles Harris, principal investigator for Berkeley Lab's Chemical Sciences Divison, and professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley, launched his career with the development of Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance in zero field, which became a primary research tool for studying solids in the 1970s. In the 1980's and 1990s, Harris has been developing techniques for studying the dynamics of chemical reactions in liquids and the electronic properties of interfaces. This work was recently cited as one of the most important new developments in chemical physics by the American Institute of Physics.