Sentences with phrase «chemistry professor who»

The death has been announced of Sherwood Rowland - the US chemistry professor who first suspected that the Earth's protective ozone layer was being depleted by man - made chemicals.

Lucky perhaps, but I had a chemistry professor who told me that luck comes to those who work hard — Emil Fischer in that case.

Graham reimagines the subject, portraying the scholar as a chemistry professor who has received a gift - wrapped cactus from which helium balloons are tied, in what is perhaps an end - of - term gift from his students.

Charles Scaife is a chemistry professor who has one definite idea about how to turn youngsters on to the world of science — it has to be hands - on.

James M. Tour, the Rice University chemistry professor who made the first nanocar, says the new car «will certainly propel the field to a higher level of sophistication.»

There he teamed up with James Hamilton, a chemistry professor who introduced him to the microscopic carbon cylinders known as nanotubes.

«Resistance to antimalarial medication threatens the health of more than half of the world's population,» notes corresponding Paul Roepe, PhD, a Georgetown chemistry professor who authored the study with colleagues at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Kentucky.

«Libby's method remained the only way to measure carbon - 14 in samples for several decades and was long considered the most accurate means of dating by carbon decay,» said David Mazziotti, a UChicago chemistry professor who submitted the formal nomination of the site as a historic chemical landmark to the American Chemical Society.

He was a chemistry professor who gave back to the community by offering local students the ability to apply their math aptitude in the lab.

Canada has a pretty decent system (had an environmental chemistry professor who was from Canada and explained their system — I trust him).

Perhaps the best counter-analysis can be found here, on the PBS Frontline website, from the independent «virtual» news organization TehranBureau, and written by MUHAMMAD SAHIMI, a USC chemistry professor who has been writing about Iran, its nuclear program and its domestic developments for many years....

Not exact matches

«If they could figure out a way to streamline, it would be a lot better,» said Kim Janda, a professor of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who leads a team of researchers developing a vaccine that would prevent fentanyl overdoses by keeping the drug from reaching the brain.

The program was created by Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor Isiah M. Warner, a former chair of the chemistry department at LSU who is now vice chancellor of the University's Office of Strategic Initiatives.

Dr Emily Baker, who led the research in Professor Dek Woolfson's laboratory, decided to change some of the amino acids in these knobs - into - holes interactions to non-natural amino acids, which the wonders of modern protein chemistry allow.

«The cortex basically takes all the information coming in and synthesizes it into reality,» says David E. Nichols, a professor of medicinal chemistry at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, who has done animal research on hallucinogens.

The candidates — mostly first - timers running for House of Representatives seats — include a physicist who spent 2 decades at a prominent national laboratory, a clinical oncologist at a top - rated cancer center, a former chemistry professor at a 4 - year state college, a geologist trying to document every aspect of a tiny piece of the Mojave Desert, and a postdoctoral bioengineering fellow.

I have family in Egypt, and I owe the country my early education,» says Zewail, who is a professor of chemistry at Caltech.

Donald Sadoway, a professor of materials chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the study, says the new concept «opens our eyes to a class of liquids that has been understudied.»

«There are considerable issues about health effects,» said John Deutch, former director of the CIA and a professor of chemistry at MIT, who heads a Department of Energy panel examining the environmental effects of shale gas drilling, with an emphasis on hydraulic fracturing.

At the ceremony in Warsaw, Turner — who is a chemistry professor at the University of Rochester known for the «Turner Rules» for predicting RNA structure — said the main goal of his and Kierzek's research has been to move as quickly as possible from «genome sequence to drugs that can help cure somebody.»

«The bactericidal mechanism of ODLs and the fact that they bind to a site on the ribosome not exploited by any known antibiotic are very strong indicators that ODLs have the potential to treat infections that are unresponsive to other antibiotics,» said Mankin, who is also professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy.

I had a professor who used to begin class by reading his favorite sections from the undergraduate newspaper, and one day he laughed at a headline about a grad student who'd blown himself up in the chemistry lab.

«Our findings could have a significant impact on the treatment of autoimmune diseases, as well as on stem cell and immuno - oncology therapies,» said Gladstone Senior Investigator Sheng Ding, PhD, who is also a professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.

One common application for quantum dots is to use them as cell markers in biomedical research, says Todd Krauss, an associate professor of chemistry and optics at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics who studies the fundamental properties of quantum dots as well as their optical properties.

A possible binding site is only functional in less than one percent of circumstances, says the study's other co-corresponding author Rohs, a professor of biological sciences, chemistry, physics, and computer science who is also a faculty member in the new USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience.

said Jonathon Stillman, associate professor of biology at San Francisco State University, who along with Ed Carpenter, professor of biology, and Tomoko Komada, associate professor of chemistry, led a team of researchers at the University's Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies.

She would advise young chemists who think of going into materials science to consider carefully the research group to which they apply for their Ph.D. «You should definitely not choose a theoretical research topic,» she says, to show that experience in applicative chemistry research gives you a head start in materials science, «and it helps if your professor is known in the field.»

I often talk to graduate students who are interested in learning more about my job as a professor of chemistry at a top - tier liberal arts college and about the best way to prepare for a job like mine.

Although the results were mixed, Active Physics consistently outperformed traditional lecture courses in conceptual learning and in attitudes toward learning and problem solving, said Regina Frey, the Moog professor of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in chemistry who co-led the evaluation team.

It's green chemistry,» said Zare, who is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science at Stanford.

Christopher Chidsey, an associate professor of chemistry at Stanford University who was not involved in this work, says the research «seems to be both theoretically well - grounded and experimentally creative.»

Professor Chris Hunter is a chemist who works on proteins chemistry, while Professor Ryan's expertise lies in making polymers with different structures.

May began three years ago by selecting a fresh expert, Thorburn Burns, a professor of chemistry at Queen's University, Belfast, who was «independent» in the sense that he had not previously been involved with the Maguire case.

«The research group focused on three or four different catalytic reactions used in high production volume chemicals, including this one for producing a precursor to nylon, which as an industry has enormous applications,» said Slowing, who is also an adjunct assistant professor of chemistry at Iowa State University.

«This class of inorganic halide perovskite has amazing phase transition chemistry,» said Yang, who is also a professor in UC Berkeley's departments of Chemistry, and Materials Science and Engineering.

Longer term, they want to quickly diagnose additional cancer types, including ovarian and pancreatic cancers, which are fast - spreading and require early detection for a patient to survive, says Goda, who was recently appointed as a chemistry professor at the University of Tokyo but will continue his research with U.C.L.A..

These classic methods to join tissue also concentrate mechanical stresses on the tissues as well as creating sites for infection,» said Jonathan Wilker, a professor of chemistry and materials engineering who helped lead a research team that developed the polymer.

I also had the good fortune of interacting with David Russell, who was a chemistry professor and chair of the graduate affairs committee.

«The letter continues the decades - long efforts of the scientific community to persuade Congress to act on the climate crisis,» says Sarah Green, a chemistry professor at Michigan Technological University who studies climate change and who is affiliated with of several of the societies that signed the letter.

In fact, I met a lovely chemistry professor there who cried during totality.

«Invasive fungal infections are a very important unmet medical need,» said University of Illinois and Howard Hughes Medical Institute chemistry professor Martin Burke, who led the study with chemistry professor Chad Rienstra.

«If we go back 10 years and ask what is the most important parameter [to developing a therapeutic particle], people would immediately think of the particle's size and then its surface chemistry,» says University of California, Santa Barbara, chemical engineering professor Samir Mitragotri, who develops microscopic particles of different shapes and tests their ability to deliver drugs, but was not associated with DeSimone's study.

Also, the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac bioaccumulates in fish, but its impact is unclear, said Diana Aga, a chemistry professor and researcher at the University of Buffalo who studies emerging chemicals in the Great Lakes.

«We can even tune the temperature higher or lower depending on how many particles we put in or what type of polymer materials we choose,» said Bao, who is also a professor, by courtesy, of chemistry and of materials science and engineering.

«It's like a sophisticated spray paint can,» explains Peter Schultz, a chemistry professor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California at Berkeley, who co-led the research effort with Xiao - Dong Xiang of LBNL.

In addition to Luo and Qiu, members of the research team include graduate student Michael J. Sheedlo; associate professor of chemistry Chittaranjan Das; collaborators Kaiwen Yu and Xiaoyun Liu of Peking University in Beijing; Ernesto S. Nakayasu of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; and Yunhao Tan a former graduate student in Luo's group who is now at Boston Children's Hospital.

«The membranes we created, though completely synthetic, mimic several features of more complex living organisms, such as the ability to adapt their composition in response to environmental cues,» said Neal Devaraj, an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego who headed the research team, which included scientists from the campus» BioCircuits Institute.

Bob Yokelson, a professor of atmospheric chemistry at the University of Montana has taken a leadership role in many aspects of the research and was in a group of about 20 scientists who selected the instruments to be installed on the large NASA plane.

The new CU Boulder e-skin has sensors embedded to measure pressure, temperature, humidity and air flow, said Assistant Professor Jianliang Xiao, who is leading the research effort with CU Boulder chemistry and biochemistry Associate Professor Wei Zhang.

Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.