chemistry

Klaas Wynne

Klaas Wynne is a chemistry topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Klaas Wynne rather than just read about it. In short: Klaas Wynne (also Wijnne; born 1964) is a professor in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow and chair of Chemical Physics. He was previously a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Strathclyde (1996–2010).

Key takeaways

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Reproduce the core statement of Klaas Wynne from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Klaas Wynne (also Wijnne; born 1964) is a professor in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow and chair of Chemical Physics. He was previously a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Strathclyde (1996–2010).

Education He received his BSc in chemistry from the University of Amsterdam in 1987 and his PhD in chemistry from the University of Amsterdam in 1990 under the supervision of Joop van Voorst. He did his postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Robin Hochstrasser at the University of Pennsylvania.

Research Wynne has authored over 90 published scientific papers. His work is focused on the structure and dynamics of liquids and solutions as well as peptides, proteins, and other biomolecules treated as amorphous objects behaving much like liquids. He described the Mayonnaise Effect, which explains the anomalous increase of the viscosity of solutions with concentration in terms of a jamming transition. He is particularly interested in phase behaviour such as supercooling of liquids, folding transitions in peptides, phase separation and nucleation using laser-tweezing, nucleation of crystals from solution", liquid-liquid and liquid-crystalline transitions, and the glass transition. These phenomena are studied using femtosecond spectroscopies such as ultrafast optical Kerr-effect spectroscopy, time-domain terahertz spectroscopy (THz-TDS) as well as optical microscopy and various other forms of spectroscopy. He has pioneered the use of mid-infrared spectroscopy combined with machine learning to identify mosquito age and species.

Awards and honours European Research Council Advanced Grant, 2018. Chemical Dynamics Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2018. Associate Editor Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), 2017–2020. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), 2015. Member of Faraday Division Council, 2013–2016. Member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2012–2015. Visiting professor in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde, 2012–2014. Member of the board of Chemical Physics (Elsevier), 2012- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2006. Fellow of the Institute of Physics, 2005. NATO research fellowship, 1991.

References

External links Chemical Photonics | Ultrafast/Slow Chemical Physics Klaas Wynne publications indexed by Google Scholar Klaas Wynne Mapping (for orienteering)

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Klaas Wynne

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Klaas Wynne claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In chemistry, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Klaas Wynne before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Klaas Wynne ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Klaas Wynne

In research: Klaas Wynne appears in chemistry research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Klaas Wynne in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Klaas Wynne is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1964 births, 21st-century Dutch chemists, 21st-century Scottish chemists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Klaas Wynne outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Klaas Wynne in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Klaas Wynne matter?

Because it connects several chemistry ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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