个人简介
EDUCATION
B.S., Stevens Institute of Technology
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Educational Summary
Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 1963-1967 B.S. with High Honors
University of California Berkeley, CA 1967-1971 Ph.D., Chemistry
National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 1971-1973 Staff Fellow
University of Oxford,Dyson Perrins Laboratory Oxford, England 1983-1984 Visiting Professor
Professional Positions
2007-Present Visiting Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry, University of Richmond
1999-2020 Principal, SaddlePoint Frontiers, Richmond, VA
1999-2014 Senior Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation
2002-2005 Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
1998-1999 Fellow, Worldwide Scientific Affairs, Philip Morris U.S.A.
1997-Present Producer, Video Products for Science and Education
1996-1998 Associate Principal Scientist, Philip Morris U.S.A
1995 Leader of Technology Assessment, Philip Morris U.S.A.
1993-1995 Leader of Technology and Operational Planning, Philip Morris U.S.A.
1991-1993 Section Leader, Philip Morris U.S.A.
1979-1996 Senior Scientist, Philip Morris U.S.A.
1973-1979 Research Scientist, Philip Morris U.S.A.
Summer, 1967 International Flavors & Fragrances, Union Beach, NJ
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The Importance of Diversity and Mutual Respect in the Practice of the History of Chemistry,Bull. Hist. Chem. 2022, 47, 124-137 [with Peter J. T. Morris].
Remote Interviewing and the History of Chemistry, Bull. Hist. Chem., 2022, 47, 153-162.
The Back Story: Steven J. Weininger, A Man for All Seasons, Bull. Hist. Chem., 2022, 47, 176.
Editorial: Diverse Views in the Assignment of Credit for Research Discoveries, ACS Omega,2022, 7, 1-4; doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.1c04845.
My First and My Latest Publication, J. Phys. Org. Chem., 2022, 1-15; doi.org/10.1002/poc.4344.
“For its Size, the Most Complex Natural Product Known.” Who Deserves Credit for Determining the Structure of Strychnine? ACS Cent. Sci. 2022, 1-10;doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.1c01348.
An Iraqi by Birth, an Israeli in Body, a Soul without Borders. Sason Shaik in His Own Words,Isr. J. Chem. 2022, 1-17; doi.org/10.1002/ijch.202200005.
The Ways of Science Through the Lens of the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules. The Stories Begin,Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-22; doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202100211.
History of the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules. The No-Mechanism Puzzle, Chem. Rec., 2022, 22,1-41; doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202100212; and front cover.
A Sleeping Beauty in Chemistry. Oosterhoff, Havinga and Schlatmann, Four Years Before “The Woodward-Hoffmann Rules,” Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-25; doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202100245.
Kenichi Fukui, Frontier Molecular Orbital Theory, and the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules. Part I.The Person, Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-30; doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202100297.
Kenichi Fukui, Frontier Molecular Orbital Theory, and the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules. Part II.A Sleeping Beauty in Chemistry, Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-30; doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202100300.
Kenichi Fukui, Frontier Molecular Orbital Theory, and the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules. Part III. Fukui’s Science and Technology, 1918—1965, Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-50;doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202100302.
The Many Chemists Who Could Have Proposed the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules (Including- 16 -Roald Hoffmann) But Didn’t: The Theoretical and Physical Chemists, Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-45; doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202200052.
The Many Chemists Who Could Have Proposed the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules But Didn’t:The Organic Chemists Who Discovered the Smoking Guns, Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-67;doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202200065.
The Back Story: Dudley Herschbach, a Doorway to a New World, Bull. Hist. Chem., 2022, 47,
Percy Lavon Julian: A Man Who Rose to Every Occasion, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2022,119, 1-4; e2208883119; doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2208883119.
The Many Chemists Who Could Have Proposed the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules But Didn’t:The Organic Chemists Who Knew of the Smoking Guns, Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-62;doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202200137.
Five Decades of Dispute. A Triptych: Why Woodward? Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-56;doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202200150.
Understanding Chemistry: From “Heuristic (Soft) Explanations and Reasoning by Analogy” to“Quantum Chemistry,” Chem. Sci., 2022, 11461-11486; doi: 10.1039/d2sc02535c
Book review: A Case for the Engagement Between the Sciences and the Humanities. Jay A.Labinger’s: Connecting Literature and Science, Found. Chem. 2022, 24, 1-11;doi.org/10.1007/s10698-022-09440-z.
Why Hoffmann? The Person and the Young Chemical Physicist, Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-30;doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202200196.
Why Hoffmann? His Chemistry, Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-30; doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202200205.
The Back Story: The Back Story: Vladimir Prelog, Albert Eschenmoser and I. A Friends of a Friend is a Friend, Bull. Hist. Chem., 2022, 47, 339-340.
Peer review experiences of academic chemists in Ph.D. granting institutions in the United States,Account. Res., 2023, 30, 63-76, doi: 10.1080/08989621.2021.1962714
On a Unified Theory of Acids and Bases: Hasok Chang, Eric R. Scerri, Modern TheoreticalChemistry, and the Philosophy of Chemistry, Found. Chem. 2023, 25, 1-22;doi.org/10.1007/s10698-022-09456-5.
Why Woodward and Hoffmann? And Why 1965? Chem. Rec., 2023, 23, 1-37;doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202200239.
The Front Story: That One Magic Speck in this Magnificent Universe, Bull. Hist. Chem. 2023,48, 1-3.
“The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth.” Writing the History of the - 17 -Woodward-Hoffmann Rules. Bull. Hist. Chem. 2023, 48, 90-94.
The Back Story: KC, EJ, and Arbie. Three Generations of Eminent Synthetic Organic Chemists,Bull. Hist. Chem. 2023, 48, 126-128.
Early Champions of Research in Chemistry with Undergraduates: A Trajectory from William Albert Noyes to Percy Lavon Julian, ACS Omega, 2023, 8. 8911-8924.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c07639.
Revolutions in Science, Revolutions in Chemistry, Found. Chem. 2023, 25, 1-15;doi.org/10.1007/s10698-023-09467-w.
The Uncertain Role of Nominations in the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Chem. Eur. J. 2023, 29,1-15. DOI: 10.1002/chem.202203985 [with G. Restrepo].
Introduction to “Woodward−Hoffmann’s Stereochemistry of Electrocyclic Reactions: From Day 1 to the JACS Receipt Date (May 5, 1964 to November 30, 1964).” Chem. Rec., 2023, 23, 1-16;doi: 0.1002/xtcr.202300009.
Russell Earl Marker and the Beginning of the Steroidal Pharmaceutical Industry, Chem. Rec.,2023, 23, 1-19; doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202300048.
On the Non-existent Nobel Prizes for Two Pioneers of Modern Physical Organic Chemistry: Sir Christopher K. Ingold and Saul Winstein, J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2023, 1-19; e455;doi.org/10.1002/poc.4551 [with G. Restrepo].
Revolutions in Chemistry: Assessment of Six 20th Century Candidates (The Instrumental Revolution; Hückel Molecular Orbital Theory; Hückel’s 4n+2 Rule; the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules; Quantum Chemistry; and Corey’s Retrosynthetic Analysis), J. Am. Chem. Soc. Au, 2023,3, 1-24; doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.3c00278.
Bumps in the Road: R. B. Woodward and His Years Before Tenure, Tetrahedron. 2023, 65, 1-24; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2023.133599.
Guest Editorial: Celebrating Carl Djerassi, Chem. Eng. News, 2023, 101 (October 23), 2;https://cen.acs.org/people/Guest-Editorial-Celebrating-Carl-Djerassi/101/i35
The Back Story: Gilbert Stork and the Sweetness of Quinine, Bull. Hist. Chem., 2023, 48, 253-251. A 21st Century View of Allowed and Forbidden Electrocyclic Reactions, J. Org. Chem., in press(with Q. Zhou, G. Kukier, I. Gordiy, R. Hoffmann, and K.N. Houk).
On Cycloadditions and the Origination of Ideas: Woodward and Hoffmann’s Second Publication. The Transformation of Roald Hoffmann from a “Calculator” to an “Explainer”,Chem. Rec. 2024, in press.
The Back Story: Luitzen Oosterhoff and the Sleeping Beauties, Bull. Hist. Chem., 2023, 48, in