John D. Roberts
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| Born | June 8, 1918 Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | Penn State UCLA Harvard MIT Caltech |
| Alma mater | UCLA |
| Doctoral students | Frank J. Weigert George M. Whitesides |
| Notable awards | ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1954) Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry (1967) |
John Dombrowski Roberts (born June 8, 1918) is an American chemist. He has made contributions to the integration of physical chemistry, spectroscopy and organic chemistry for the understanding of chemical reaction rates. Another characteristic of Roberts' work was the early use of NMR, the concept of spin-spin coupling.[1]
Career
Roberts received both a B.A. (1941) and Ph.D. (1944) from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has held several positions at the California Institute of Technology, including Division Chairman of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from 1963–68, Dean of the Faculty and Provost from 1980–83 and Institute Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus (1988- ) in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.[2] He is credited with bringing the first female graduate student, Dorothy Semenow, to Caltech when he moved from MIT.[3][4] He was a consultant for DuPont Central Research (1950-2008)[5] and for Oak Ridge.[2]
He published his autobiography in 1990, The Right Place at the Right Time.[6][7]
Awards and honors
Roberts was elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1952.[8] He was elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1956 at 38 years old.[9] In 1978, he was elected a Fellow of The Explorers Club. He was awarded the Priestley Medal in 1987,[10] the National Medal of Science in 1990,[11] the Glenn T. Seaborg Medal in 1991,[12] the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences in 1999,[13] the Nakanishi Prize in 2001,[14] the NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society in 2009,[15] the Linus Pauling Legacy Award in 2006[16] and the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal in 2013.[5] He has received honorary degrees from the University of Munich (1962), Temple University (1964) and the University of Notre Dame.[2] In 1998 he was named by Chemical & Engineering News as one of the 75 most influential chemists in the last 75 years.[17]
References
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Sources
- Roberts, John D. "ABCs of FT-NMR." University Science Books, Sausalito, California, 2000.
- "JDR." Engineering & Science 1980, 44(2), p. 10.
Books
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External links
- Papers of John D. Roberts Finding Aid (2013), Archives, Othmer Library, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
- Interview with John D. Roberts, April 25, 1987 and June 14, 1987, from the Center for Oral History at the Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Caltech faculty page
- Roberts Group page
- Biography in E&S
- A Video interview of Professor Roberts on the Eminent Organic Chemists Website
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