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19th
Annual Lecture
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Herbert
C. Brown
Lectures in Organic Chemistry
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TBA
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- Purdue Univeristy
- West Lafayette, Indiana
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- For further information contact:
- Prof.
Ei-ichi Negishi
- Prof.
P.V. Ramachandran
For
reservaitions please contact Ms.
Lynda Faiola or phone
765-494-5300.
On-site
reservaitons will be accepted.
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and Sarah Brown have spent their career dedicated to discovering
new science, new people and new ideas. They met in 1932
at Crane Junior College, Chicago, but it closed in 1933.
They continued their education in 1934 at a newly-opened
Wright Junior College, where upon graduation in 1935,
Sarah inscribed a note in Herb's yearbook , "To
a future Nobel Laureate."
They continued their
education at the University of Chicago where, upon his
graduation in 1936, she presented him with a gift, Alfred
Stock's Baker Lectures on "Hydrides of Boron
and Silicon," —the cheapest book available
at the UC book-store. This in part played a role
in his choice of H. I. Schlesinger as his research advisor
at the University of Chicago. After he completed a postdoctoral
position with M. S. Kharasch, he returned to work with
Schlesinger and codiscovered sodium borohydride.
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As an assistant professor
at Wayne State University Herbert Brown explored steric
strains, and in 1947 he moved to Purdue University as
professor. He was promoted to R. B. Wetherill Research
Professor in 1960. Since his "retirement"
in 1978, he has been the R. B. Wetherill Professor
Emeritus, supervising approximately ten postdoctoral
associates. He has published five books and over 1200
scientific publications. He has won essentially every
major award in chemistry, including the Nobel Prize
in Chemistry in 1979. In recognition of Professor Brown's
contributions to chemistry, in 1998 the Amercan Chemical
Society established the Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative
Research in Synthetic Methods.
Herb and Sarah continue
to combine lectures with sight-seeing and visits to
their grandchildren.
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