Michael D. Fayer

Michael D. Fayer
BornSeptember 12, 1947 (1947-09-12) (age 77)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (BS, PhD)
AwardsMember of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1999 and of the National Academy of Sciences since 2007, Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science from the American Physical Society in 2012
Scientific career
FieldsChemical physics
InstitutionsStanford University
ThesisCoherence in excited triplet states of molecular crystals (1974)
Doctoral advisorCharles B. Harris
Doctoral studentsKeith A. Nelson
R. J. Dwayne Miller
Andrei Tokmakoff
Dana D. Dlott

Michael David Fayer (born September 12, 1947) is an American chemical physicist. He is the David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.