About the Author

Richard ZARE, American professor of chemistry. Richard was born on November 19, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio. Bachelor, Harvard, 1961; postgraduate, University of California, Berkeley, 1961-1963; Doctor of Philosophy (National Science Foundation predoctoral fellow), Harvard, 1964; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Arizona, 1990; Doctor of Science (honorary), Northwestern University, 1993; Doctor of Science (honorary), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, 1993.