Research Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Office: Young Hall 2077 D
Mail: 607 Charles E. Young Drive East
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
Phone: (310) 825-4330
Fax: (310) 206-4038
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Education and Training

New York University	1951-55	B.A. Chemistry
Pennsylvania State University	1955-59	Physical Chemistry
University of Leiden (Netherlands)	1959-61	Ph.D. Molecular Physics
Ohio State University	1961-62	Postdoctoral, Physical Chemistry
CalTech	1962-64	Postdoctoral, Chemical Engineering

Positions and Employment

1964-1970	Assistant Professor of Chemistry, UCLA
1970-1976	Associate Professor of Chemistry, UCLA
1976-2004	Professor of Chemistry, UCLA
2004-present	Research Professor of Chemistry, UCLA

Other Experience and Professional Memberships

1975-1978	Vice-chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
1984-1987	Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
1994-1997	Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
1993-1998	Editor, Physica A
1998- present	Senior Editor, Journal of Physical Chemistry

Honors

1951-1953	Jerome Aaron Scholarship
1957-1958	Union Carbide Fellow
1958-1959	Fulbright Scholar
1980	Herbert Newby McCoy Award
1983	Fellow, American Physical Society
1983	UCLA Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award
1990	Alexander von Humboldt Senior Award, University of Mainz
1997	UCLA College of Letters and Science Faculty Award
1998	Alexander von Humboldt Senior Award, Max Planck Institute, Potsdam
2000	Kolthoff Lecturer, University of Minnesota
2002	American Chemical Society Award in Colloid Chemistry

 

Selected Publications

1. Gordon, V.C., Knobler, C.M. and Schumaker, V.N., "Conformational changes of the chromatin sub-unit," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 75, 660-663 (1978).

2. Kunitake, S.,T., Loh, E., Schumaker, V.N., Ma, S.K., Knobler, C.M., Kane, J.P. and Hamilton, R.L., "Molecular weight distributions of polydisperse systems: Application to very low density lipo-proteins," Biochemistry 17, 1936-1942 (1978).

3. Fang, J. and Knobler, C. M., "Control of density in self-assembled organosilane monolayers by Langmuir-Blodgett deposition," J. Phys. Chem. 99, 10425-10429 (1995).

4. Fang, J. and Knobler, C. M., "Phase-Separated Two-Component Self-Assembled Organosilane Monolayers and Their Use in Selective Adsorption of a Protein," Langmuir 12, 1368-74 (1996) .

5. Heath, J. R., Knobler, C. M. and Leff, D. V., "Pressure/temperature phase diagrams and supperlattices of organically functionalized metal nanocrystal monolayers: The influence of particle size, size distribution and surface passivant," J. Phys. Chem. B 101, 189-97 (1997).

6. Fang, J, Knobler, C. M., Gingery, M. and Eiserling, F. A., "Imaging Bacteriophage T4 on Self-Assembled Monolayers of Organosilanes by Scanning Force Microscopy," J. Phys. Chem. B 101, 8692-95 (1997).

7. Fang, J., Dennin, M., Knobler, C. M., Godovsky, Yu. K. and Yokoyama, H.,

   "Structures of collapsed polysiloxane monolayers investigated by scanning force microscopy," J. Phys. Chem. B 101, 3147-54 (1997).

8. Fang, J., and Knobler, C.M., "Layer growth in collapsed liquid crystal monolayers studied by scanning force microscopy," Physica A 244, 91-98 (1997).

9. Gehlert, U., Fang, J. and Knobler, C.M., "Relating the organization of the molecular tilt azimuth to lateral-force images in monolayers transferred to solid substrates," J. Phys. Chem. 102, 2614-2617 (1998).

10. Park, C.K, Schmitt, F.J., Evert, L., Schwartz, D.K., Israelachvili, J.N., and Knobler, C.M.,