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Vartkess Ara Apkarian

Vartkess Ara Apkarian 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 Vartkess Ara Apkarian rather than just read about it. In short: Vartkess Ara Apkarian (born 1955) is an Armenian-American physical chemist and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. Career He is the Director of Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit, a National Science Foundation Center for Chemical Innovation.

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Reference excerpt

Vartkess Ara Apkarian (born 1955) is an Armenian-American physical chemist and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine.

Career

He is the Director of Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit, a National Science Foundation Center for Chemical Innovation. He graduated from University of Southern California with B.S. degrees in Chemistry followed by Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Northwestern University. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University, he joined the University of California as Chemistry faculty in 1983. He served as the Chair of the Chemistry Department (2004-2007) at UC Irvine.

He is a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, and a Fellow of American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. His teaching and research has been recognized with awards including the Humboldt Prize (1996), USC Distinguished Alumnus (2007), Charles Bennett Service Through Chemistry Award of ACS (2008) ACS Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry (2014), Honorary Doctorate from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland (2016). His recent scientific contributions include creating a single-molecule sensor and developing tools to confine the light to atomic dimensions. His team visualized the internal structure of single molecules and imaging the normal vibrational modes of single molecules.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Vartkess Ara Apkarian

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Vartkess Ara Apkarian 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 Vartkess Ara Apkarian

In research: Vartkess Ara Apkarian 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 Vartkess Ara Apkarian 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: Vartkess Ara Apkarian is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1955 births, American chemist stubs, American nanotechnologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Vartkess Ara Apkarian in simple terms?

Vartkess Ara Apkarian (born 1955) is an Armenian-American physical chemist and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. Career He is the Director of Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit, a National Science Foundation Center for Chemical Innovation.

Why does Vartkess Ara Apkarian 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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