Professor Graham R. Fleming
Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Lecture (4:00 pm, University of Nevada campus), September 12
Mechanisms and Optimization of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting
Banquet (6:30 pm, Bricks Restaurant and Wine Bar), September 11
GRAHAM R. FLEMING is a Professor of Chemistry and the Director of the Physical Bioscience Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and has been since 1997. He was born in 1949 and received his B Sc.(with Honours) in Chemistry from Bristol University, UK, in 1971. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of London, UK, in 1974, after which he was a Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology from 1974-75. He was a University Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, from 1975-76, and a Leverhulme Fellow at the Royal Institute, UK, from 1977-79 before he was hired by the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor in 1979. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1983 and full Professor in 1985. In 1987 he was named the Arthur Holly Compton Distinquished Service Professor. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. He has received numerous awards including the Inter-American Photochemical Society Award in 1996, the Centenary Lecture and Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1996, the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1998, and the Harrision Howe Award in Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1999.