David Lide Ph.D.
Since 1989, Dr. Lide has been Editor-in-Chief of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics and has been involved in several other reference book and database projects. EducationLide received his B.S in Chemistry from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949, M.A. in Physics from Harvard in 1951, and Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Harvard in 1952.Career HighlightsDr. Lide has served as President of the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) of the International Council for Science, President of the Physical Chemistry Division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), Chairman of the IUPAC Committee on Chemical Databases, Chairman of the American Chemical Society Task Force on Scientific Numerical Databases, Chairman of the AIP Publication Board (1979-80), Chairman of the AIP Planning Committee for the Physics Vade Mecum, and Councilor of the American Physical Society, representing the Division of Chemical Physics. Membership on advisory boards includes Chemical Abstracts Service, Petroleum Research Fund, Engineering Information, Inc., National Materials Property Data Network, Chemistry Departments at Harvard and Princeton, and various panels of the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council. He held National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellowships at University College London in 1959-60 and the University of Bologna in 1968-69. Awards include the Department of Commerce Gold Medal in 1969; the Samuel Wesley Stratton Award of NBS for research in microwave spectroscopy in 1969; a Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Federal Executive in 1986; the Herman Skolnik Award in Chemical Information in 1988, and the Patterson-Crane Award of the American Chemical Society for Contributions to the Documentation of Chemistry in 1991. In 2003 he was designated a lifetime National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.In addition to his work as Editor-in-Chief of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, he is the author of Basic Laboratory and Industrial Chemicals, Handbook of Thermophysical and Thermochemical Data, Handbook of Organic Solvents, and Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds. He has also edited a commemorative book marking the centenary of the National Bureau of Standards - National Institute of Standards and Technology, A Century of Excellence in Measurements, Standards, and Technology. He served as coeditor of a new edition of AIP Physics Desk Reference, published by Springer Verlag in 2002. His most recent activities have involved the creation of electronic versions of the works he previously published in book form. These include CDROM and Internet versions of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics and Properties of Organic Compounds. |
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