Lide, David R. 1928–

PERSONAL:

Born May 25, 1928, in Gainesville, GA; son of David Reynolds (an accountant) and Kate (a homemaker and teacher) Lide; married Mary Lomer, November 5, 1955 (marriage ended December 12, 1988); married Bettijoyce Breen (a government program manager), December 17, 1988; children: David Alston, Vanessa Lide Whitcomb, James Hugh, Quention Robert. Education: Carnegie-Mellon University, B.S., 1949; Harvard University, M.A., 1951, Ph.D., 1952.

ADDRESSES:

Home and office—North Potomac, MD. E-mail—drlide@post.harvard.edu.

CAREER:

National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC, physicist, 1954-63, chief of Molecular Spectroscopy Section, 1963-69, director of Office of Standard Reference Data, 1969-88; freelance editor, 1989—. Member of editorial board, Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, 1968-76, and Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Science, 1986-89.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Fulbright scholar and Ramsay Memorial fellow, 1952-53; senior postdoctoral fellow, National Science Foundation, 1959-60 and 1967-68; U.S. Department of Commerce, Silver Medal, 1965, and Gold Medal, 1968; Samuel Wesley Stratton Award, 1968; Presidential Rank Award, meritorious executive, 1986; Herman Skolnik Award in Chemical Information, American Chemical Society, 1988; Patterson-Crane Award for contributions to chemical documentation, 1991.

WRITINGS:

(Editor in chief) CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, CRC Press (Boca Raton, FL), 71st edition, 1990, 89th edition, 2008.

Basic Laboratory and Industrial Chemicals, CRC Press (Boca Raton, FL), 1993.

(With G.W.A. Milne) Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds, 3rd edition, CRC Press (Boca Raton, FL), 1993.

(With Henry V. Kehiaian) CRC Handbook of Thermophysical and Thermochemical Data, CRC Press (Boca Raton, FL), 1994.

Handbook of Organic Solvents, CRC Press (Boca Raton, FL), 1994.

(Editor, with G.W.A. Milne) Names, Synonyms, and Structures or Organic Compounds, CRC Press (Boca Raton, FL), 1995.

(With George L. Trigg and E. Richard Cohen) Physicist's Desk Reference, Springer-Verlag (New York, NY), 2001, 3rd edition published as AIP Physicist's Desk Reference, AIP Press (New York, NY), 2003.

(Editor) A Century of Excellence in Measurements, Standards, and Technology: A Chronicle of Selected NBS/NIST Publications, 1901-2000, National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, DC), 2001, published as A Century of Excellence in Measurements, Standards, and Technology, CRC Press (Boca Raton, FL), 2002.

Contributor to reference books, including several technical encyclopedias. Contributor to scientific and technical journals. Editor, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 1972-92; associate editor, CODATA Bulletin, 1974-83.