Distinguished Academic Scientists

Terry Cole, PhD 58, who is a senior staff scientist at the Ford Motor Company Research Staff, spent most of the last academic year back at Caltech—this time as a Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar. 

Dr. Soltes has been employed for over 30 years at Academic Research Institutes in Bratislava, Slovakia. His research related to the polysaccharides, which started over two decades ago, resulted in patenting a novel approach "Clathrate complexes formed by hyaluronic acid derivatives and use thereof as pharmaceuticals". His current research interests are focused on the studies of hyaluronan oxidative damage and the regulation of this process. Dr. Soltes is the sole distinguished representative of Slovakia in the International Society for Hyaluronan Sciences. In 2007 he was named Scientist of the Year of the Slovak Republic. 

Oppenheimer insisted, with some success, that scientists at Los Alamos remain as much an academic community as possible, and he proved adept at satisfying the emotional and inteUectual needs of his highly distinguished staff. Hans Bethe, head of the theoretical division, remembered that nobody else in that laboratory ... even came close to him. In his knowledge. There was human warmth as well. Everybody certainly had the impression that Oppenheimer cared what each particular person was doing. In talking to someone he made it clear that that person s work was important for the success of the whole project. ... 

In addition to his life as an active scientist, Glenn Seaborg has had a distinguished career in academic and public life. He served at various times as Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission for a period of ten years, and Chairman of the Lawrence Hall of Science, to name only a few of his extra-scientific activities. He was the recipient of a Nobel Prize (1951) for his discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements, and has received encomiums from most of the scientific societies of the world. 

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