Urs Wild

Urs Paul Rolf Wild (17 April 1936 – 22 November 2022)^[25] was a Swiss chemist. He became known for his pioneering works in single molecule detection.

Urs Wild
Wild in 1997
Born	(1936-04-17)17 April 1936 Winterthur, Switzerland
Died	22 November 2022(2022-11-22) (aged 86)
Alma mater	ETH Zurich (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Thesis	Aufbau einer Blitzlichtapparatur mit Zündfunkenstrecke und ihre Anwendung zum Studium der Triplett-Triplett Annihilation von Anthracen in Glycerin  (1965)
Doctoral advisor	Hans H. Günthard
Doctoral students	Alfred J Meixner (Q87848597) (1988)[1] Erich Meister (Q112517430) (1988)[2] Stefan Bernet (Q77890744) (1993)[3] Frank Guttler (1994)[4] Marco Pirotta (1996)[5] Daniel Erni (1997)[6] Daniel Reiss (1997)[7] Mauro Croci (1997)[8] Thomas Irngartinger (1997)[9] Armel Rosselet (1997)[10] Felix Graf (Q110988580) (1998)[11] Bernd Plagemann (1998)[12] Hermann Bach (1998)[13] Ernst-Udo Wallenborn (1999)[14] Jurgen Gallus (1999)[15] Daniel Walser (1999)[16] Jean-Manuel Segura (2000)[17] Elizabeth Donley (2000) [18] Thilo Weitzel (2001)[19] Thomas Nonn (2001)[20] Beate Sick (2001)[21] Werner Trabesinger (2001)[22] Tatiana Latychevskaia (Q42857143) (2002)[23] Michael Prummer (Q40255014) (2002)[24]

Biography

Wild studied chemistry at ETH Zurich. He received his Master Diploma in physics at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, US, in 1962. He completed his PhD under Professor Günthard at the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich in 1965, the subject of his PhD thesis was "Aufbau einer Blitzlichtapparatur mit Zündfunkenstrecke und ihre Anwendung zum Studium der Triplett-Triplett Annihilation von Anthracen in Glycerin".^[26]

In 1972 Wild was appointed assistant professor at the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich. He was promoted to associate professor in 1977 and to full professor in 1984. He retired in October 2001.^[27]

From 2000 Wild was a member of Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.^[28]

He worked with, among others, the Polish physical chemist Jerzy Sepioł [pl].^[29]

William E. Moerner took an eight-month sabbatical in 1993–1994 to become a visiting guest professor in the lab of Wild at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.^[30]

Publications and Patents

• Urs P. Wild, Dietrich Döpp and Heinz Dürr, Triplet States II in Topics in Current Chemistry Volume 55, Springer, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-540-07197-0.^[31]
• Thomas Basché, William E. Moerner, Michel Orrit, Urs P. Wild, Single‐Molecule Optical Detection, Imaging and Spectroscopy, Wiley, 1996, ISBN 978-3-527-29316-2, 978-3-527-61471-4. doi:10.1002/9783527614714.^[32]
• co-author of more than 300 papers.^[33][34][35]

References

1. Meixner, Alfred (1988). Spektrales Lochbrennen Entwicklung der holographischen Detektionsmethode Stark - Effekt Experimente an spektralen Löchern (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
2. Meister, Erich (1988). Beitrag zur zeitaufgeloesten Fluoreszenzspektroskopie und zur Picosekunden-Korrelationsmesstechnik (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
3. Bernet, Stefan (1993). Phasenkontrollierte Holographie in frequenzselektiven Materialien (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
4. Guttler, Frank (1994). Spektroskopie einzelner Moleküle (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
5. Pirotta, Marco (1996). Optical spectroscopy on single perylene molecules in n-nonane (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
6. Erni, Daniel (1997). Photonechos mit spektral modulierten, ultrakurzen Laserpulsen (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
7. Reiss, Daniel (1997). Optische Datenspeicherung und Abbau photoaktiver Systeme (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
8. Croci, Mauro (1997). Single molecule spectroscopy (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
9. Irngartinger, Thomas (1997). Abbildende Einzelmolekül-Spektroskopie von Terrylen (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
10. Rosselet, Armel (1997). Multispektrale Bildaufzeichnung mit spektralem Lochbrennen (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
11. Graf, Felix (1998). Investigations of spectral dynamics in rare earth ion doped crystals using high resolution laser techniques (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
12. Plagemann, Bernd (1998). Möglichkeiten und Grenzen optischer Datenspeicherung in frequenzselektiven Materialien (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
13. Bach, Hermann (1998). Spectral dynamics of single molecules (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
14. Wallenborn, Ernst-Udo (1999). Microscopic analysis of the spectra of aromatic guests in alkane hosts (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
15. Gallus, Jurgen (1999). Spektrale Eigenschaften und Beugung an der "Zeitkante" von Femtosekunden-Photonecho-Hologrammen (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
16. Walser, Daniel (1999). Two-photon single molecule spectroscopy (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
17. Segura, Jean-Manuel (2000). Scanning confocal optical microscopy of single molecules at low temperature (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
18. Donley, Elizabeth (2000). Single-molecule spectroscopy at subkelvin temperatures (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
19. Weitzel, Thilo (2001). Volumen-Hologramme in photochromen Medien (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
20. Nonn, Thomas (2001). Interplay of vibrational dynamics and optical transitions in single molecules doped in solids (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
21. Sick, Beate (2001). Single molecules as sensitive probes in high-resolution optical microscopy (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
22. Trabesinger, Werner (2001). Optical probing of single-molecule interactions (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
23. Latychevskaia, Tatiana (2002). Single molecules in electric fields (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
24. Prummer, Michael (2002). Multi-parameter fluorescence spectroscopy (PhD thesis). ETH Zurich.
25. "Urs Paul Rolf Wild death notice". rauer.nzz.ch. 29 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
26. ETH Zurich Research Collection
27. Wild, Urs, Prof. em. Dr.
28. List of members of Heidelberger Science Academy
29. "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
30. William E. Moerner Biographical
31. Triplet States II. Topics in Current Chemistry. Vol. 55. 1975. doi:10.1007/BFb0050592. ISBN 978-3-540-07197-6.
32. Basché, T.; Moerner, W. E.; Orrit, M.; Wild, U. P., eds. (1996). Single-Molecule Optical Detection, Imaging and Spectroscopy. Wiley. doi:10.1002/9783527614714. ISBN 978-3-527-29316-2.
33. Urs P. Wild - Publications on academictree
34. Urs Wild profile on researchgate
35. Urs Wild publicationse on Google Scholar

External links

• Urs Wild on the ETH Zürich website