Stuart Alan Rice

Stuart Rice was my mentor and thesis advisor from 1984-1988. I remember him for his warm, upbeat, and supportive nature. A couple of stories: I went to Stuart's office to apologize for wasting a couple of months or more of computation time after a visiting scientist identified an error I made in understanding how to use a force field. He responded with "You know how you could have prevented that mistake? ... You could have sat around and done nothing during that time." Another time I was...

I had the good fortune of being a research associate of Stuart Rice at The James Franck Institute for two years from July 1972. Coming from the spartan research environment of his good friend Robert Zwanzig the Rice group at The University of Chicago was incredibly exciting with 10-15 excellent young people doing research over a large area of physical chemistry and parts of physics as well. Stuart managed to be interested in, and keep up with, a huge number of both theoretical and...

It is sad news for the whole Chemical Physics community and a particular sad news for Stuart's family, friends, all those who did know him personally and in particular for those who had the privilege to share professional friendship with him. Stuart played a crucial role in my scientific career which took a new turn during my University of Chicago years when I had the privilege of spending a couple of productive years in Stuart's group. The years to come - and as a matter of fact - my...

Ruth, I am so sorry to hear of the passing or your husband. Condolences to you and your family. I will keep you all in my prayers. Dorothy Burnett