Subdivision
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| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Allen J. Bard | | | Institution: | University of Texas at Austin | | | Year Elected: | 1999 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1933 | | | | | | |
In a career spanning more than 40 years at the University of Texas, Allen J. Bard has a distinguished research record in physical chemistry and electrochemistry. Currently the Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair of Chemistry, he has made fundamental contributions to photoelectrochemistry and heterogeneous photocatalysis and has been a pioneer in electrochemiluminescence. He has also been a major contributor to the physical characterization of electrodes modified with polymers, clays, and other multicomponent arrays. His work in basic science constitutes the underpinning of many industrial processes dealing with corrosion, electrolysis, and electrolytic purification, the production of photoelectrochemical diodes, electrochemistry in novel solvents under extreme conditions, electrochemical microscopy, and photoacoustic and photothermal spectroscopy. Dr. Bard is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bruno Breyer Memorial Award of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, the Luigi Galvani Medal of the Societá Chimica Italiana, the Sigillum Magnum of the Università di Bologna, the Award in Chemical Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences, the Welch Foundation Award in Chemistry, and the 2012 National Medal of Science. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1999. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton | | | Institution: | California Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1999 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | | | |
Jacqueline K. Barton is the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. Barton was awarded the B.A. degree summa cum laude at Barnard College in 1974 and went on to receive a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry at Columbia University in 1979 in the laboratory of S. J. Lippard. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Bell Laboratories and Yale University in the laboratory of R. G. Shulman, she became assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Hunter College, City University of New York. In 1983, she returned to Columbia University, becoming associate professor of chemistry and biological sciences in 1985 and professor in 1986. In the fall of 1989, she joined the faculty at Caltech. Professor Barton has pioneered the application of transition metal complexes as tools to probe recognition and reactions of double helical DNA. These synthetic transition metal complexes have been useful in elucidating fundamental chemical principles which govern the recognition of nucleic acids, in developing luminescent and photochemical reagents as new diagnostic tools, and in laying a foundation for the design of novel chemotherapeutics and biosensors. Dr. Barton has received numerous awards including the Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation, awarded to an outstanding young scientist in the United States, the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry, the 2011 National Medal of Science, the 2015 American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal, the Royal Society of Chemistry's Centenary Prize for 2018, and the 2019 National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences. The recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1999. | |
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