College of Chemistry at the University

Board s Executive Committee and recently was elected to the office of first vice chair, the Chemical Engineering Advisory Board at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the Advisory Board of the National Science Resources Center, the Advisory Board for the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, the National Research Council s Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology and the Michigan Molecular Institute Board. 

In 1912 Lewis accepted a position as dean and chairman of the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He remained at Berkeley for the rest of his hfe and transformed the chemistry department there into a world-class center for research and teaching. His reforms in the way chemistry was taught, a catalyst for the modernization of chemical education, were widely adopted throughout the United States. Lewis introduced thermodynamics to the curriculum, and his book on the same subject became a classic. He also brought to the study of physical chemistry such concepts as fugacity, activity and the activity coefficient, and ionic strength. 

Ten years later Lewis was offered the chair of the college of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley. This sounds a bit more grandiose than it was because at the time the department was run down and Lewis s job was to rebuild it. Given financial support and a free hand, Lewis brought on board a crew of skilled teachers who set about building a department that would train a world-class generation of chemists. 

Health and Safety Projects in the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley... 

Royce W. Murray is Kenan Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his B.S. from Birmingham Southern College in 1957 and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1960. His research areas are analytical chemistry and materials science with specialized interests in electrochemical techniques and reactions, chemically derivatized surfaces in electrochemistry and analytical chemistry, electrocatalysis, polymer films and membranes, solid state electrochemistry and transport phenomena, and molecular electronics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. 

Philip J. Chenier is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, which he joined in 1970. He has worked for General Mills Chemicals and 3M Company. Dr. Chenier received his B.A. from St. Mary s College, Winona, Minnesota, and his Ph.D. from Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois. He has done post-doctoral work at the University of Minnesota. He has published extensively in research and scholarly journals, and earlier versions of his book on industrial chemistry have been used by various schools since 1986. He has developed and taught an industrial chemistry course for the past twenty years. 

John M. Thomas was born In South Wales and took his Bachelor s degree at the University of College at Swansea and completed his Ph.D. at Queen Mary College, of the University of London. For 9 years from 1969 he was Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University College of Wales In Aberystwyth. He then moved to the University of Cambridge as Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry. He Is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Indian Academy. He was Baker Lecturer at Cornell University In 1963. He conducts research In solid-state and surface chemistry, dealing with materials such as carbons, organic molecular crystals, clays, and zeolites, and Is Interested In catalysis and In the chemical consequences of crystalline Imperfections. 

Krishnan Rajeshwar is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Associate Dean in the College of Science at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of over 450 refereed publications, several invited reviews, book chapters, a monograph, and has edited books, special issues of journals, and conference proceedings in the areas of materials chemistry, solar energy conversion, and environmental electrochemistry. Dr. Rajeshwar is the Editor of the Electrochemical Society Interface magazine and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Applied Electrochemistry. Dr. Rajeshwar has won many Society and University awards and is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society. 

Dr. Horning was born in Philadelphia, PA, received a B.S. degree from the University of Pennsylvania (1937) and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois (1940), doing his thesis work with Professor R. C. Fuson. He was an instructor at Bryn Mawr College during 1940-1941 and became an instructor of chemistry at the University of... 

In 1946, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of San Francisco, California. Even with a heavy teaching load, he found time to do research which was conducted under something less than desirable conditions. In order to get to his laboratory from his office, he had to push his desk into a comer, lift a trap door, and climb down a ladder to the laboratory. Despite these handicaps, he published five papers in the year that he held the post. In 1947, Karabinos returned to St. Procopius College, Lisle, Illinois, but this time as Professor and Head of the Chemistry Department, a position that he held from 1947-1949. In 1949, he became a Chemical Foundation Research Associate with C. S. Hudson, at the (then) National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. There, Karabinos was involved in the preparation of higher-carbon sugars by the addition of hydrogen cyanide. Often, one of his roles in this effort was to obtain, at the factory, commercially produced liquid hydrogen cyanide in Dewar flasks... 

Ann Cuder is the field editor for the Journal of College Science Teaching, a position she has held since 2006. She is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Indianapolis in Indiana and has a doctorate in inorganic chemistry from Purdue University. 

Neil Bartlett was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, in 1932 and was educated at Heaton Grammar School (1944-1951) and King s College, University of Durham (B.Sc., 1954 Ph.D., 1958). He was a faculty member of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver B.C., Canada from 1958 to 1966 (Lecturer, 1958 to 1959 Instructor, 1959 to 1961 Assistant Professor, 1961 to 1963 Associate Professor, 1963 to 1964 and Professor, 1964 to 1966). In 1966, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University and was simultaneously a member of the scientific staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. He took up, in 1969, appointments as Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley (Emeritus from 1993) and as Principal Investigator at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, to 1999. 

Tn 1937, N. K. Adam accepted the Chair and Headship of the Depart-ment of Chemistry at the University College (later University) of Southampton. He held this position for 20 years, was one of the founding fathers of the university, and prepared it well for the advent of the present large and important School of Chemistry there. 

Lord Rayleigh s work caught the attention of Sir William Ramsay, a professor of chemistry at the University College, London. In 1898 Ramsay passed nitrogen, which he had obtained from air by Rayleigh s procedure, over red-hot magnesium to convert it to magnesium nitride ... 

Hedstrom, he completed his Ph.D. degree at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, in 1998 with Professor Richard B. Silverman. At Northwestern, he studied mechanism-hased inactivators of NO synthase. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Stephen J. Benkovic at Penn State University, University Park, PA, where he studied the kinetics and mechanism of a dinuclear zinc beta-lactamase involved in the evolution of antibiotic resistance. He was appointed as an assistant professor in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin in 2002 and was promoted with tenure to associate professor in 2008. His research interests include mechanism and inhibition of enzymes in the pentein superfamily as well as enzymatic methods of disrupting interbacterial communication pathways. 

Jean-Baptiste-Andre Dumas (1800-1884) was born in France. Apprenticed to an apothecary, he left to study chemistry in Switzerland. Fie became a professor of chemistry at the University of Paris and at the College de France. He was the first French chemist to teach laboratory courses. In 1848, he left science for a political career. He became a senator, master of the French mint, and mayor of Paris. 

Leopold Stephen Ruzicka (1887-1976) was the first to recognize that many organic compounds contain multiples of five carbons. A Croatian, Ruzicka attended college in Switzerland and became a Swiss citizen in 1917. He was a professor of chemistry at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and later at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. 

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the precocious William Henry Perkin (1838-1907) entered the Royal College of Chemistry at the age of 15 and soon became an assistant to its Director, Professor August Wilhelm Hofrnann. " By that time, coal tar had become an unwanted waste product and while commercial benzene and toluene had been obtained from coal tar by distillation, it was still considered a massive nuisance. Working in his home laboratory in London in 1856, young Perkin tried unsuccessfully to synthesize the dmg quinine but obtained instead dark tars. A modification, using the coal-tar component aniline, provided another dark substance that was found, again quite by accident, to be an excellent purple dye, that Perkin named mauve. Perkin left the university, much to Hoffmann s dismay, and built a factory to manufacture mauve financed by his father. Suddenly, a synthetic dye industry emerged and coal tar became a commodity rather than a waste product. 

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