Graduate studies degree

Formal structures for the acquisition of academic degrees in quantum chemistry were established in the year following Lowdin s appointment to the chair in May 1960. Anders Froman became the first to earn the fil. lie. degree in December 1961 and thus started the "institutionalization" of the field. It had until then a flavor of novelty and exclusivity which was embraced by some and repelled others. The new status changed the prerequisites for graduate studies as well, undergraduate chemistry as well as experimental physics should now be a part of the baggage of new students. 

Denis Hayes was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, on August 29,1944. He earned his A.B. degree from Stanford University in 1969. At the time that Neison made his first speech about Earth Day, Hayes was enroiied at Harvard University s Kennedy School of Government. Called upon by Nelson and other Earth Day organizers, however, Hayes left Harvard and became national coordinator of Earth Day. Because of his intimate involvement with the environmental movement, it was another 15 years before Hayes was able to complete his graduate studies. In 1985, he was also awarded his degree in environmental law from Stanford. Between 1983 and 1988, Hayes was adjunct professor of engineering at Stanford. 

In response to the needs of industry, a number of centers for graduate study in maeromolecular science have developed. The first such center was at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (now Polytechnic University) and large centers now exist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio I Pig. I). University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and University of Akron (Ohio). The first accredited engineering undergraduate degree program in polymer science was developed in die Department of Maeromolecular Science at Case Western Reserve University. 

Steven F. Watkins is Associate Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He received his B.A. degree from Pomona College and his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin (Madison). His research specialty is in structural/materials chemistry using x-ray diffraction, and he has published more than 80 papers. From 1990 to 2000, he was Director of Graduate Studies in the Louisiana State University Chemistry Department. 

Larry Yet was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. After graduating with his B.Sc. degree in chemistry from the University of British Columbia working with Professor James P. Kutney on his senior thesis, he continued his graduate studies with Professor Harold Shechter at The Ohio State University, receiving his M.S. degree in 1990 and Ph.D. in 1995. He then carried out postdoctoral research with Professor Douglass F. Taber at the University of Delaware. Since 1996, he has worked at Albany Molecular Research, Inc., as a senior research scientist. 

Walter Fast received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, where he is shown with his daughter Lillian. After a brief but enlightening period of graduate studies in biochemistry at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, with Professor Lizbeth... 

Patrick A. Frantom received his BS degree in biochemistry from Louisiana State University. Following graduation, he began graduate studies at the Department of Biochemistry at Texas... 

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