Veronica Vaida
- January 10, 2024
- Chemist
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Veronica Vaida Biography
| Name | Veronica Vaida |
| Birthday | Aug 3 |
| Birth Year | 1950 |
| Place Of Birth | Bucharest |
| Birth Country | Romania |
| Birth Sign | Leo |
Veronica Vaida is one of the most popular and richest Chemist who was born on August 3, 1950 in Bucharest, Romania.
Vaida was born in Bucharest. Her parents were from Transylvania and met after World War II. Her mother survived an Auschwitz concentration camp and her father was a political prisoner. She attended a Hungarian school in Cluj- Napoca and moved back to Bucharest in 1963. She studied chemistry at the University of Bucharest. After seeing a US position advertised in 1969, she moved to Brown University, working on detectors for molecular beams. She joined Yale University for her postgraduate studies in 1973, but struggled to find an academic mentor because the male academics thought organic chemistry was “unsuitable for women”. Her original mentor was Geraldine A. Kenney- Wallace, who left to set up the first ultrafast spectroscopy lab at the University of Toronto. She eventually obtained her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1977.
In 1977 Vaida became a Xerox postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, working alongside Dudley R. Herschbach and Bill Reinhart on photoreaction dynamics. She collaborated with Kevin Peters and Meredith Applebury at Bell Labs. She married Keven Peters in 1978 and was made a member of the faculty at Harvard University on the same day. In 1980 she was appointed an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and a Camille and Henry Dreyfus scholar in 1984. Vaida developed jet cooled absorption spectrometry to analyse the lifetimes of reactive systems, where excited state dynamics were complicated because of diffuse absorption and limited fluorescence. She worked on an excimer laser that could allow her group to study transition metal complexes. She moved to the University of Colorado Boulder, where she built her own spectroscopy lab. She identified the excited state of OCIO with Susan Solomon in 1989. After collaborating with Susan Solomon, Vaida recognised that her studies of model compounds could be useful in atmospheric chemistry. Her group went on to study atmospheric ozone, water clusters and polar ice. She divorced Kevin Peters in 1990.
Veronica Vaida Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Chemist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Veronica Vaida is one of the richest Chemist from Romania. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Veronica Vaida 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Veronica Vaida (born 3 August 1950) is a Romanian-American Chemist and Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is an expert in environmental chemistry and aerosols.
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Frederick Ranked on the list of most popular Chemist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Romania. Veronica Vaida celebrates birthday on August 3 of every year.