Zare, Richard N(eil) (1939- )

US chemical physicist. He developed laser fluorescence in the 1970s. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he was a research assistant at the University of Colorado (1964-65), taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1956-66), then returned to Colorado (1966-69) before becoming a chemistry professor at Columbia University (1969-77). He moved to Stanford in 1977 and pursued research on fluorescence, chemiluminescence, and the applications of laser fluorescence to chemistry and biology.