Richard Stein-Bayer Corporation Honorary Seminar in Polymer Chemistry
The Chemistry Department will be hosting its annual Stein-Bayer Seminar, which is generously sponsored by the Bayer Corporation in honor of Prof. Richard Stein, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and pioneer in the field of polymer chemistry. This year’s speaker is Professor George Whitesides from the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. The title of Professor Whitesides’ lecture is “Reinventing Chemistry”
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 1986-89, and Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry from 1982-2004. He is now the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor.