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John Franklin Ogilvie is a Canadian chemist, known for his work in physical chemistry and mathematics. He has worked his entire life to explain complex chemical concepts with mathematics, using the Maple software to provide free chemistry courses. He was born in Ottawa Ontario Canada in 1938 January as the first child of Benjamin Franklin and Cecily Irene (nee Dickens) Ogilvie. The Ogilvie’s migrated in 1754 from the Scottish Highlands to the region of South Carolina and Georgia in the thirteen colonies; during the subsequent rebellion they supported the Crown and were subsequently given land about 1800 in the Musquodoboit valley of Nova Scotia Canada, from which the descendants migrated across much of North America at the beginning of the twentieth century. Ogilvie received his forenames from his father and from his maternal grandfather, John Dickens, whose wife Anna Jane (nee Woolley) claimed was a grandson of Charles Dickens, author. He attended St. Michael's Academy and Queen Victoria schools in Belleville Ontario and Semiahmoo secondary school in White Rock, British Columbia Canada. Entering University of British Columbia in 1956 September, he graduated with combined honours in physics and chemistry in 1959 May; his nominal advisors in physics and chemistry were Professors G. M. Shrum and C. A. McDowell, respectively. During summers of 1958 and 1959 he worked as an analytical chemist on pesticide residues in Entomology Laboratory of Canada Department of Agriculture in Summerland British Columbia. Further study in University of British Columbia for degree M.Sc. in chemistry was undertaken from 1959 September until 1961 June; a thesis on Infrared Spectra of Reactive Species was prepared under the supervision of K. B. Harvey (B.Sc. Toronto, D.Sc. Laval). He was accepted as a research student in Emmanuel College Cambridge and in physical chemistry in University of Cambridge from 1961 October. In 1963 April he was elected to a Research Fellowship of Emmanuel College, a position previously held by two who became Nobel laureates in chemistry, and was also appointed to the academic staff of Department of Physical Chemistry in University of Cambridge. He represented Emmanuel College in association football against Exeter College Oxford, and played the piano parts of Beethoven trios and Schubert quintet 'die Forellen' in college concerts. His research, under the nominal supervision of Professor R.G.W. Norrish, F.R.S., Nobel, resulted in a doctoral thesis of title Spectroscopic Studies of Trapped Radicals, of which the external examiner was Professor G.  Porter, F.R.S., Nobel, and was awarded degrees M.A. 1964 and Ph.D. 1966. Ogilvie was the only research student of Norrish never to publish a joint article with him, although the research projects during that period produced journal articles to a total extent about 150 pages. Ogilvie returned to Canada, first as a Research Fellow in National Research Council Division of Pure Chemistry on a project with Dr. W. G. Schneider F.R.S., vice-president of NRC, and Dr. W. Siebrand, but devoted much time in the group of Dr. G. Herzberg F.R.S., Nobel, in Division of Pure Physics. In 1967 September Ogilvie transferred to University of Newfoundland. In 1976 September he became head of the physical chemistry section in Kuwait University, in 1983 January head of department of chemistry in University College Bahrain (now Bahrain National University), and in 1986 September visiting professor in department of chemistry in National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. In total he has been associated with 24 universities in 15 countries on six continents as professor or visiting professor or equivalent, including nearly five years in Research School of Chemistry in Australian National University in association with Professor D. P. Craig F.R.S. He has served as instructor in courses of general chemistry for science students, general chemistry for medical students, general chemistry for arts students, analytical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, theoretical chemistry, mathematics for chemistry and technical composition in English. His research activity has included projects in physical chemistry, chemical and molecular physics and applied mathematics, resulting in more than 230 publications in various journals of scientific research and science education. He published the first paper on applications of computer algebra in physical chemistry and a textbook of title Mathematics for Chemistry with Symbolic Computation, in addition to a monograph on Vibrational and Rotational Spectrometry of Diatomic Molecules, and coedited with J.C.A. Boeyens a book on Models, Mysteries and Magic of Molecules. Among the new molecular species first identified as a result of experiments that he designed and implemented are HNSi, HNGe, HCNN, HOI, C5H, B2H4 and B3H3. Experimental research in photochemistry has continued in collaboration with staff scientists in National Synchrotron Radiation Research Centre in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan, and theoretical projects with various collaborators in a few countries. After formal retirement from Academia Sinica Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science within National Taiwan University, to which he had been appointed by Professor Y. T. Lee, Nobel, Ogilvie was been associated with Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics in Simon Fraser University Canada, Escuela de Química of Universidad de Costa Rica and Institute of Quantum Physics in Irkutsk National Research Technical University in Siberia, Russian Federation.

Publications

 * Mathematics for Chemistry with Symbolic Computation
 * Vibrational and Rotational Spectrometry of Diatomic Molecules
 * Models, Mysteries and Magic of Molecules

Category:1938 births Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge