What's Cooking in Chemistry by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

Alan Roy Katritzky

was born in London on August 18, 1928. He started his studies at the University of Oxford, finishing up with a D. Phil. in 1954. After some years as postdoctoral fellow and college lecturer, he became lecturer at the University of Cambridge in 1958 and two years later became Director of Studies of the newly founded Churchill College. From 1963 to 1980 he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of East Anglia and was Dean of the School of Chemical Science for 1 1 years. He was appointed Kenan Professor at the University of Florida, where he is at present. He became Director of the Center for Heterocyclic Compounds in 1985.

During his long and extremely productive scientific career (Katritzky is author or co-author of some 1800 publications), he obtained numerous awards. He is a “Cavaliere Ufficiale” of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (since 1975), Fellow of the Royal Society (since 1980), Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 1991), Inaugural Fellow of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (since 1995), and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (since 2000).

His numerous awards include the RSC Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry (1982), the Golden Tiger Award of the Exxon Corp. (1990), the Senior Humboldt Award, the ACS Florida Prize (1995), the Award of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (1993), the Kametani Prize (1999), the ACS Cope Senior Scholar Award (2001), and the Gold Medal of the Partnership for Peace Foundation, Moscow (2001). He is a Doctor honoris causa of 10 universities in 8 countries. He has edited some 20 scientific journals and series, among those, Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry since its beginning in 1963. ARKAT-USA, the Alan and Linde Katritzky not-for profit foundation for the support of research and education, particularly in second- and third-world countries, was formed in 1999 and has established ARKIVOC, a free electronic journal.

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