Title: DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS OF SELECTIVE OLEFIN METATHESIS CATALYSTS
Professional experience:
1968-1969 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (R. Colman)
1969-1973 Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
1973-1978 Associate Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
1978-1990 Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
1990-present Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Fellowships and Awards
Academies
1965 American Chemical Society
1989 National Academy of Sciences
1994 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
1999 Honorary Membership to Royal Irish Academy in the Section of Science
2004 Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
2009 Admitted to Polish Academy of Sciences
2014 Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (FNAI)
2015 National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies
2015 Foreign Membership of Chinese Academy of Sciences
International Awards
1997 The Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry
1998 Fluka Prize - Reagent of the Year 1998
2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry (The Franklin Institute)
2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2005, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
2005 August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmünze, German Chemical Society
2014 Giulio Natta Award 2014 for Chemistry