15 March 2022

Vita

ROBERT S. KNOX

Current Business Address:

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Bausch and Lomb Hall 466

University of Rochester

P. O. Box 270171

Rochester, New York 14627-0171

Email rsk@pas.rochester.edu

Home:

53 Songbird Lane

Rochester, New York 14620-3174

Voice (585) 271-8328; cell (585) 743-7482 (text preferred)

Email rknox@frontiernet.net

Date and Place of Birth:

July 13, 1931, Franklin, New Jersey

Citizenship:

United States of America

Marital Status:

Married (Myrta Borges)

Academic Degrees:

B. S. (Engineering Physics) Lehigh University, 1953

Ph. D. (Physics, Optics) University of Rochester, 1958

Employment:

1968 - 1997 Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

1963 - 1968 Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

Summer 1963 Theoretical Physicist, Xerox Corporation

1960 - 1963 Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

Summer 1960 Resident Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory

1959 - 1960 Research Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois

1958 - 1959 Research Associate in Physics, University of Illinois

1953 - 1958 Teaching and Research Assistant in Physics and Optics, University of Rochester

Summers, Apprentice Assistant Design Engineer, Naval Ordinance Division,

1952 - 1955 Eastman Kodak Company

Appointments (all University of Rochester)

1997 - Professor of Physics Emeritus

1985 - 2016 Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

1998 (spring) Acting Director, Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering

1997 - 2001 Faculty Senior Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy

1982 - 1986 Dean, University College of Liberal and Applied Studies (part-time position)

1982 - 1987 Associate Dean for Special Programs, College of Arts and Science (part-time position)

1969 - 1974 Chairman, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Awards and Honors:

1994 Prize in Biological Physics, American Physical Society

1993 Royal Society Guest Research Fellow and UK Fulbright Scholar, Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London (January-June)

1987 Watkins Visiting Professor, The Wichita State University, Wichita, KS (one week)

1979 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship (short-term) at the Physics Department of Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (September - November)

1978, 1989 Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy,

University of Rochester

1967 - 1968 National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship, at the University

of Leiden Biophysical Laboratory

1955 - 1956 National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, at the University of

Rochester

Memberships:

American Association of Physics Teachers

American Physical Society (APS) (Fellow)

American Society for Photobiology (Charter member)

Other Professional Activity:

1997 - 1998 Member, Organizing and Planning Committees, EXCON III (Third International Conference on Excitonic Processes in Condensed Matter, Boston, MA, November 1998)

1996 - 1997 Organizer, Fourteenth Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

1994 - 2016 Member, editorial board, American Institute of Physics/Springer Verlag Series in Basic and Applied Biological Physics

1990 - 1993 Member of Joint Publication Committee, Biophysical Journal

1989 - 1994 Member and Chair (1989-1993), Physics Programs Policy Committee, American

Institute of Physics

1986 - 1989 Member of APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics

1985 - 1988 Member of APS Committee on Education

1985 - 1988 Member of Council, APS, representing the Division of Biological Physics

1984 - 2002 Member of the editorial board, Journal of Luminescence

1984 - 1989 Associate Editor, Biophysical Journal

1984 Co-organizer (with S. Doniach and L. Stryer), Workshop on Membrane Biophysics, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO

1981 - 1982 Chairman, APS Division of Biological Physics

1980 - 1981 Vice-Chairman, APS Division of Biological Physics

1977 - 1990 Chair, Organizing Committee, Rochester Condensed Matter Symposium

1977 - 1980 Member at large, executive committee, APS Division of Biological Physics

1973 - 1975 Chairman, New York State Section, APS

1971 - 1977 Member of the executive committee, New York State Section, APS

1971 - 1973 Vice chairman and program committee chairman, New York State Section, APS

Extended Consultantships:

1975 - 1982 Xerox Corporation, Webster, NY

1975 - 1977 Solid State Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL

1963 - 1971 Xerox Corporation, Webster, NY

1960 - 1972 Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC

1959 - 1969 Solid State Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL

Service on Visiting Committees:

May 1996-99 Physics Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

Oct 1996 Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY

Apr 1994 Physics Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Apr 1991 Physics Department, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN

Mar 1988 Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL

Dec 1986 Physics Department, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

May 1985 Physics Department, SUNY College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

July 1976 Physics Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA (annually through June 1983)

Jan 1976 Physics Department, Clarkson College, Potsdam, NY

Community Service

2020 – Member, Advisory Board, Society for Chamber Music in Rochester

2011 – 2015 Vice President – Finance, Society for Chamber Music in Rochester

2005 – 2014 Member, Board of Directors, Rochester Torch Club

2007 – 2012 Secretary, Rochester Torch Club

2005 – 2011 Member, Executive Committee, Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries

2007 – 2009 Treasurer, Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries