Professors of Chemistry

Pages 2,3, 4,5 Stamps are courtesy of James O Schreck Professor of Chemistry University of Northern Colorado... 

Attributed to C. N. Reilley (1925-1981) on receipt of the 1965 Fisher Award in Analytical Chemistry. ReiUey, who was a professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel HiU, was one of the most influential analytical chemists of the last half of the twentieth century. 

Ronald E. Hester is Professor of Chemistry in the University of York. He was for short periods a research fellow in Cambridge and an assistant professor at Cornell before being appointed to a lectureship in chemistry in York in 1965. He has been a full professor in York since 1983. His more than 300 publications are mainly in the area of vibrational spectroscopy, latterly focusing on time-resolved studies of photoreaction intermediates and on biomolecular systems in solution. He is active in environmental chemistry and is a founder member and former chairman of the Environment Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and editor of Industry and the Environment in Perspective (RSC, 1983) and Understanding Our Environment (RSC, 1986). As a member of the Council of the UK Science and Engineering Research Council and several of its sub-committees, panels and boards, he has been heavily involved in national science policy and administration. He was, from 1991-93, a member of the UK Department of the Environment Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances and is currently a member of the Publications and Information Board of the Royal Society of Chemistry. 

There are a number of grim anecdotes about him in wartime thus, at that time he always carried a cyanide capsule for the eventuality of his capture, and when a fellow professor asked him to find him one too, he responded This poison is for professors of chemistry only. You, as a professor of mechanics, will have to use the rope . 

Professor of Chemistry University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont... 

Kenan Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry University of Florida Gainesville, Florida... 

Prof Dr. Robin D. Rogers Professor of Chemistry Director, Center for Green Manufacturing Department of Chemistry The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487... 

While still a student at the Academy, Ipatieffbegan to make a name for himself in the Russian chemical community as he began to publish some of his laboratory findings. His first professional milestone as a chemist came in 18h() when he joined Russia s Physical-Chemical Society. Here he came into close contact with Russia s most famous chemists, including Dimitri Mendeleev, discoverer of the periodic table and one of the founders ol the Society. In 1891, upon graduating from the school, he was appointed lecturer in chemistry at the Academy where he also continued to undertake original chemical research for his doctoral dissertation. In 1895, he was made assistant professor and, upon completion and acceptance of his dissertation in 1899, he became a full professor of chemistry. 

Sami Matar, Ph.D., is a retired professor of chemistry at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dharan, Saudi Arabia. He received a B.Sc. from the University of Cairo and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Texas, Austin. Dr. Matar has served as associate member of the board of the Egyptian Petroleum Institute and general manager of the chemical and research laboratories of Suez Oil Processing Co. The author and contributor to many articles and books. Dr. Matar is also a member of the American Chemical Society and Society of Petroleum Engineers. 

Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875-1946 was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and received his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1899. After a short time as professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1905-1912), he spent the rest of his career at the University of California at Berkeley (1912-1946). In addition to his work on structural theory, Lewis was the first to prepare heavy water," D20, in which the two hydrogens of water are the 2H isotope, ceuterium. 

Melvin S. Newman (1306-1993) was born in New York and received his Ph.D. in 1932 from Yale University. He was professor of chemistry at the Ohio State University (1936-1973), where he was active in both research and chemical education. 

George Simms Hammond (1921-2005) was bom on Hardscrabble Road m Auburn, Maine, the son of a dairy farmer. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard Universitv in 1947 and served as professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, California Institute of Technology (1958-1972), and the University of California at Santa Cruz (1972-1978). He was known for his exploratory work on organic photochemistry—the use of light to bring about organic reactions. 

Frank C. Whitmore (1887-1947) was born in North Attleboro. Massachusetts, and received his Ph.D. at Harvard working with E. L. Jackson. He was professor of chemistry at Minnesota, Northwestern, and the Pennsylvania State University. Nicknamed "Rocky," he wrote an influential advanced textbook in organic chemistry. 

George Andrew Olah (1927-) was born in Budapest. Hungary, and received a doctorate in 1949 at the Technical University of Budapest. During the Hungarian revolution in 1956. he immigrated to Canada and joined the Dow Chemical Company. After moving to the United States, he was professor of chemistry at Case Western Reserve University (1965-1977) and then at the University of Southern California (1977- ). He received the 1994 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on carbocations. 

Herbert Charles Brown (1912-20D4) was born in London to Ukrainian parents and brought to the United States in 1914. Brown received his PhD. in 1938 from the University of Chicago, taught at Chicago and at Wayne State University, and then became professor of chemistry at Purdue University. The author of more than 1000 scientific papers, he received the 1979 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on organoboranes. 

Henry Gilman (1893-1986) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and received his Ph D. in 1918 at Harvard. He then became professor of chemistry at Iowa State University 11919-1962), where he remained active until his death at ago 93. An exuemely prolific researcher, Gilman published more than 1000 scientific papers during his career. Remarkably, he lost much of his eyesight at age 53 but still went or to accomplish some of fiis finest work in later years. 

Paul Walden (1863-1957) was born in Cesis, Latvia, to German parents who died while he was still a child. He received his Ph.D. in Leipzig, Germany, end returned to Russia as professor of chemistry at Riga Polytechnic (1882-1919). Following... 

Saul Winstein (1912-1969) was bom in Montreal, Canada, and received his Ph.D. in 1938 at the California Institute of Technology. From 1942 to 1969, he was professor of chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he devoted his scientific career to the study of organic reaction mechanisms, particularly those involving carbocations. 

Rowland Pettit (1927-19811 was born in Port Lincoln, Australia. He received two doctoral degrees, one from the University of Adelaide in 1952 and the second from the University of London in 1956, working with Michael Dewar. He then became professor of chemistry at the University of Texas, Austin (1957-1981). 

Charles Friedel (1832-1899) was horn in Strasbourg, France, and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. Trained as both 3 mineralogist and a chemist, he was among the first to attempt to manufacture synthetic diamonds. He was professor of mineralogy at the School of Mines before becoming professor of chemistry at the Sorbonne (1884-1899). 

James Mason Crafts (1839-19171 was bo 1 n in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1858, Although he did not receive a Ph D., he studied with eminent chemists in Europe for several years and was appointed in 1868 as the firs professor of chemistry at the newly founded Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Ithaca winters proved too seve-e, however, and he soon moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served as president from 1897 to 1900. 

Alexander W. Williamson (1824-1904) was born in London, England, and received his Ph.D. at the University of Giessen in 1846. His ability to work in the laboratory was hampered by a childhood injury that caused the ioss of an arm. From 1849 until 1887, he was professor of chemistry at University College, London. 

Arthur Lapworth (1872-1941) was born in Galashiels, Scotland, and received a D.Sc. at the City and Guilds Institute, London. He was professor of chemistry at the University of Manchester from 1909 until his retirement in 1937. 

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