Professor George M. Whitesides
Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Lecture (4:00 pm, University of Nevada campus)
Meso-scale Self-assembly
Banquet (7:00 pm, Famous Murphy's Restaurant)
with after-dinner remarks by Dr. Whitesides
GEORGE M. WHITESIDES was born August 3, 1939 in Louisville, KY. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1960 and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (with J.D. Roberts) in 1964. He was a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1982. He joined the Department of Chemistry of Harvard University in 1982, and was Department Chairman 1986-9. He is now Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. He received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 1968, the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry in 1975, the Harrison Howe Award (Rochester Section of the ACS) in 1979, an Alumni Distinguished Service Award (California Institute of Technology) in 1980, the Remsen Award (ACS, Maryland Section) in 1983, an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (ACS) in 1989, the James Flack Norris Award (ACS, New England Section) in 1994, the Arthur C. Cope Award (ACS) in 1995, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Award for Significant Technical Achievement in 1996, and the Madison Marshall Award (ACS) in 1996, and the National Medal of Science in 1999. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served on advisory groups to the National Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Commerce, in addition to serving on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Chemical Physics Letters, Chemistry of Materials, the Journal of Physical Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie, Accounts of Chemical Research, Langmuir, and is a reviewing editor for Science. Present research interests include materials science, biochemistry, surface chemistry, molecular virology, optics, self-assembly and organic synthesis.