APS Member History

1	Name:	Dr. Ben L. Feringa
	Institution:	Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; University of Groningen
	Year Elected:	2024
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1951

	Ben L. Feringa obtained his PhD degree at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands under the guidance of Professor Hans Wynberg. After working as a research scientist at Shell in the Netherlands and the UK, he was appointed lecturer and in 1988 full professor at the University of Groningen and named the Jacobus H. van't Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences in 2003. He is member and former vice-president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He was elected Foreign Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The German Academy Leopoldina, the Chinese National Academy of Sciences, Foreign member of the Royal Society (London) and Member of the US National Academy. Ben Feringa is member of European Research Council ERC. In 2008 he was appointed Academy Professor and was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands and in 2016 promoted to Commander in the order of the Dutch Lion. Feringa’s research has been recognized with a number of awards including the Koerber European Science Award (2003), the Spinoza Award (2004), the Prelog gold medal (2005), the Norrish Award of the ACS (2007), the Paracelsus medal (2008), the Chirality medal (2009),the RSC Organic Stereochemistry Award (2011), Humboldt award (2012), the Nagoya gold medal (2013), ACS Cope Scholar Award 2015, Chemistry for the Future Solvay Prize (2015), the August-Wilhelm-von-Hoffman Medal (2016), the Tetrahedron Prize 2017, the Euchems gold medal and the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (jointly with J.-P. Sauavage and Sir J.F. Stoddart). Feringa’s research interest includes stereochemistry, homogeneous catalysis, organic synthesis, asymmetric catalysis, molecular switches and motors, supramolecular chemistry, self-assembly, molecular nanosystems and photopharmacology.

2	Name:	Dr. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
	Institution:	Princeton University
	Year Elected:	2024
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1966

	Sharon Hammes-Schiffer received her B.A. in Chemistry from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University, followed by two years at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Her academic career has included faculty positions at the University of Notre Dame, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Yale University. She is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. Her work encompasses the development of analytical theories and computational methods, as well as applications to experimentally relevant systems. She has devised theories of proton-coupled electron transfer and computational strategies for nuclear-electronic quantum dynamics and quantum chemistry, including the invention of the nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) approach. She has used these approaches to investigate quantum mechanical effects in chemical, biological, and interfacial processes. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, and Biophysical Society. She has received the American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry, the Royal Society Bourke Award, the Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry, and the Gibbs Medal Award. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Reviews and is on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science and the Editorial Board for PNAS. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2024.

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