Mark Child

Mark Sheard Child FRS (born 17 August 1937) is a British chemist, and emeritus fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Education Child attended Pocklington School from 1947 to 1955. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge in 1963 with a thesis on The vibrational spectra of electronically degenerate molecules.

Research Child's research interests include semiclassical mechanics, Molecular collision theory, Rydberg states and Quantum Level Structures at a Saddle point.