Presented by the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society |
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Speaker: |
Professor Nicholas J. TurroColumbia University | |
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Date:  Friday, May 19, 2000
Location:   | Windows Ballroom The DoubleTree Hotel 9599 Skokie Road Skokie, Illinois |
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Introducing Professor Turro:   Professor Frederick Lewis of Northwestern University
Cost: 
$35.00 for members of ACS and their guests/ $37.00 for non-members
No discounts allowed for students or unemployed
Reservations:   (847) 647-8405
or,   REGISTER ON LINE !
No refunds after May 16 for cancellations or no-shows.
Tables of ten are available upon request.
Biography: Dr. Nicholas J. Turro is the William P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry and Co-Chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry at Columbia University in New York City. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1960 and his Ph.D. in 1963 from the California Institute of Technology under George S. Hammond. Dr. Turro had a post doctoral position at Harvard University from 1963 to 1964. He has spent his professional career at Columbia University from 1964 until the present.
Dr. Turro was elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1981. He received a J.S. Guggenheim Award in 1984, and a Cope Scholar Award in 1986 and the James Flack Norris Award in 1987, both from ACS. He has also received the Havinga Medal from Leiden University in 1994, a Caltech Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1996, and the Strahlenchemie Preis from the Max-Planck-Institute for Radiation Chemistry in Mülheim, Germany in 1998, among other awards.
From the City or the North:
Take Interstate 94 (Edens Expressway) to Old Orchard Road East exit. Go east (right) to Skokie Boulevard (Route 41). Turn right (south) 2.5 blocks to Golf Road. DoubleTree Hotel is on the southeast corner of Golf and Skokie Boulevard.From O'Hare Airport:
Take Interstate 294 North to Dempster-East. Go east on Dempster Road to Potter Road, turn left, and proceed to Golf Road. Turn right (east) on Golf Road and proceed 8 miles to Skokie Boulevard (Route 41) and turn right. Hotel DoubleTree is at the intersection of Golf Road and Skokie Boulevard.
Parking:   Free
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