Fred Basolo Medal Award Presentation Joint with the Northwestern University Department of Chemistry

2000 FRED BASOLO MEDAL TO BE PRESENTED TO JAMES P. COLLMAN

James P. Collman, Daubert Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, will receive the 2000 Fred Basolo Medal jointly sponsored by the Department of Chemistry of Northwestern University and the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society. Professor Collman was chosen for this award for his distinguished contributions to organometallic chemistry, catalysis, and understanding of the oxygen binding and activating hemoproteins.

The award consists of a Medal and an honorarium. Awarded annually since 1991 for outstanding research in inorganic chemistry, the Medal was established by former students and postdoctorates of Basolo in appreciation for his seminal contributions to inorganic chemistry during his career at Northwestern. Previous recipients are Ralph G. Pearson, Henry Taube, Jack Halpern, Harry Gray, Lawrence Dahl, Richard H. Holm, Kenneth N. Raymond, Malcolm Green, and Thomas Meyer.

James Collman was born in 1932 in Beatrice, Nebraska. He received B.S. (1954) and M. S. (1956) degrees from the University of Nebraska, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He joined the University of North Carolina faculty as an instructor in 1958, rose to full professor by 1966, and moved to Stanford in 1967.

Professor Collman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a NSF Predoctoral and postdoctoral fellow, as well as an Alfred P. Sloan fellow. He has twice held Guggenheim fellowships; he is also a Churchill fellow (Cambridge, Great Britain) and has been Visiting Erskine fellow in New Zealand. In 1972, Collman won the ACS California Section Award (13 western states). In 1975, he received the ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry, and in 1986 he was one of the first Arthur C. Cope scholars. In 1983, Collman was named California Scientist of the Year. In 1990 and 1991 respectively, he received the ACS Pauling Award and Distinguished Service Award in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry. In 1997, he received the ACS Bader Award in Bioinorganic Chemistry. Stanford University has recognized his teaching with a Distinguished Teaching Award (1981) and the Allan V. Cox Medal for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research (1988). He has received honorary degrees from the University of Nebraska and the University of Burgundy in France.

Professor Collman will present a lecture at Northwestern University entitled, Functional Synthetic Analogs of the Active Site in Cytochrome-c Oxidase on October 6, 2000 at 4:30 p.m. in Lecture Room 3 of the Technological Institute at 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois. A dinner meeting of the Chicago Section American Chemical Society at which the Basolo Medal will be presented will follow the lecture. For information telephone Dianne deHaseth at (847)467-1802 or view the Northwestern website at http://www.chem.nwu.edu/calendars/schedules/2000Basolo.htm.

Date:  Friday, October 6, 2000