1957 Clayton Prize of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Member, European Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, Optical Society of America
Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of New Zealand
Alexander von Humboldt Senior Award
1992 American Physical Society International Prize for New Materials
1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1997 American Carbon Society Medal for Achievement in Carbon Science
1997 Texas Distinguished Chemist Award
1997 Order of the Golden Plate from the American Academy of Achievement
1998 Johannes Marcus Marci Medal in Spectroscopy
1998 Space Act Award
1998 Madison Marshall Award
1999 Centenary Medal Lecturer for the Royal Society of Chemistry
1. Lewicki Rafal; Doty James H; Curl Robert F; Tittel Frank K; Wysocki Gerard Ultrasensitive detection of nitric oxide at 5.33 microm by using external cavity quantum cascade laser-based Faraday rotation spectroscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009;106(31):12587-92.
2. Han Jiaxiang; Hu Shuiming; Chen Hongbing; Utkin Yurii; Brown John M; Curl Robert F Jet-cooled infrared spectrum of methoxy in the CH stretching region. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP 2007;9(28):3725-34.
3. Curl Robert F Obituary: Richard E. Smalley (1943-2005). Nature 2005;438(7071):1094.
4. Agre Peter C; Altman Sidney; Curl Robert F; Wiesel Torsten N; West-Eberhard May Jane Using ethics to fight bioterrorism. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2005;309(5737):1012-7; author reply 1012-7.
5. Lewis Ernest K; Haaland Wade C; Nguyen Freddy; Heller Daniel A; Allen Matthew J; MacGregor Robert R; Berger C Scott; Willingham Britain; Burns Lori A; Scott Graham B I; Kittrell Carter; Johnson Bruce R; Curl Robert F; Metzker Michael L Color-blind fluorescence detection for four-color DNA sequencing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005;102(15):5346-51.
6. Chen Hong-Bing; Thweatt W D; Wang Jinjin; Glass Graham P; Curl R F IR kinetic spectroscopy investigation of the CH4 + O(1D) reaction. The journal of physical chemistry. A 2005;109(10):2207-16.
7. Wysocki Gerard; McCurdy Matt; So Stephen; Weidmann Damien; Roller Chad; Curl Robert F; Tittel Frank K Pulsed quantum-cascade laser-based sensor for trace-gas detection of carbonyl sulfide. Applied optics 2004;43(32):6040-6.
8. Weidmann Damien; Kosterev Anatoliy A; Roller Chad; Curl Robert F; Fraser Matthew P; Tittel Frank K Monitoring of ethylene by a pulsed quantum cascade laser. Applied optics 2004;43(16):3329-34.
9. Bakhirkin Yury A; Kosterev Anatoliy A; Roller Chad; Curl Robert F; Tittel Frank K Mid-infrared quantum cascade laser based off-axis integrated cavity output spectroscopy for biogenic nitric oxide detection. Applied optics 2004;43(11):2257-66.
10. Chen Jinhai; So Stephen; Lee Hoason; Fraser Matthew P; Curl Robert F; Harman Thomas; Tittel Frank K Atmospheric formaldehyde monitoring in the Greater Houston area in 2002. Applied spectroscopy 2004;58(2):243-7.
11. Kosterev A A; Bakhirkin Yu A; Curl R F; Tittel F K Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy. Optics letters 2002;27(21):1902-4.
12. Kosterev Anatoliy A; Curl Robert F; Tittel Frank K; Köhler Rüdeger; Gmachl Claire; Capasso Federico; Sivco Deborah L; Cho Alfred Y Transportable automated ammonia sensor based on a pulsed thermoelectrically cooled quantum-cascade distributed feedback laser. Applied optics 2002;41(3):573-8.
13. Kosterev A A; Curl R F; Tittel F K; Rochat M; Beck M; Hofstetter D; Faist J Chemical sensing with pulsed QC-DFB lasers operating at 15.6 micrometers. Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics 2002;75(2-3):351-7.
14. Claps R; Englich F V; Leleux D P; Richter D; Tittel F K; Curl R F Ammonia Detection by use of Near-Infrared Diode-Laser-Based Overtone Spectroscopy. Applied optics 2001;40(24):4387-94.
15. Menzel L; Kosterev A A; Curl R F; Tittel F K; Gmachl C; Capasso F; Sivco D L; Baillargeon J N; Hutchinson A L; Cho A Y; Urban W Spectroscopic detection of biological NO with a quantum cascade laser. Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics 2001;72(7):859-63.
16. Arrow K J; Axelrod J; Benacerraf B; Berg P; Bishop J M; Bloembergen N; Brown H C; Cibelli J; Cohen S; Cooper L N; Corey E J; Cronin J W; Curl R; Dulbecco R; Fischer E H; Fitch V L; Fogel R; Friedman J I; Furchgott R F; Gell-Mann M; Gilbert W; Gilman A; Glaser D; Glashow S L; Green R M; Greengard P; Guillemin R; Hayflick L; Hauptman H A; Heckman J J; Heeger A; Herschbach D; Hubel D H; Hulse R; Kandel E; Karle J; Klein L R; Kohn W; Kornberg A; Krebs E G; Lanza R P; Laughlin R; Lederman L; Lee D M; Lewis E; Lipscomb W; Marcus R A; McFadden D; Merrifield R B; Merton R; Modigliani F; Molina M J; Murad F; Nirenberg M W; North D C; Olah G A; Osheroff D; Palade G E; Perl M; Ramsey N F; Richter B; Roberts R J; Samuelson P A; Schwartz M; Sharp P A; Smalley R E; Smith H O; Solow R M; Stormer H; Taube H; Taylor R; Thomas E D; Tobin J; Tonegawa S; Townes C; Watson J D; Weinberg S; Weller T H; West M D; Wieschaus E F; Wiesel T N; Wilson R W Nobel laureates’ letter to President Bush. Washington post (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 2001;():A02.
17. Kosterev A A; Curl R F; Tittel F K; Gmachl C; Capasso F; Sivco D L; Baillargeon J N; Hutchinson A L; Cho A Y Absorption spectroscopy with quantum cascade lasers. Laser physics 2001;11(1):39-49.
18. Curl R F; Smalley R E; Kroto H W; O’Brien S; Heath J R How the news that we were not the first to conceive of soccer ball C60 got to us. Journal of molecular graphics & modelling 2001;19(2):185-6.
19. Kosterev A A; Curl R F; Tittel F K; Gmachl C; Capasso F; Sivco D L; Baillargeon J N; Hutchinson A L; Cho A Y Effective utilization of quantum-cascade distributed-feedback lasers in absorption spectroscopy. Applied optics 2000;39(24):4425-30.
20. Kosterev A A; Curl R F; Tittel F K; Gmachl C; Capasso F; Sivco D L; Baillargeon J N; Hutchinson A L; Cho A Y Methane concentration and isotopic composition measurements with a mid-infrared quantum-cascade laser. Optics letters 1999;24(23):1762-4.
21. Lancaster D G; Richter D; Curl R F; Tittel F K; Goldberg L; Koplow J High-power continuous-wave mid-infrared radiation generated by difference frequency mixing of diode-laser-seeded fiber amplifiers and its application to dual-beam spectroscopy. Optics letters 1999;24(23):1744-6.
22. Goldberg L; Koplow J; Lancaster D G; Curl R F; Tittel F K Mid-infrared difference-frequency generation source pumped by 1.1-1.5 micrometer dual-wavelength fiber amplifier for trace-gas detection. Optics letters 1998;23(19):1517-9.
23. Töpfer T; Petrov K P; Mine Y; Jundt D; Curl R F; Tittel F K Room-temperature mid-infrared laser sensor for trace gas detection. Applied optics 1997;36(30):8042-9
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