Nicholas Turro

Nicholas J. Turro
Born	18 May 1938 Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Residence	New York
Nationality	American
Fields	Chemist
Institutions	Columbia University
Alma mater	Wesleyan University California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	George S. Hammond
Known for	Contribution to organic photochemistry
Notable awards	Arthur C. Cope Award (2011); Willard Gibbs Award (2000)

Nicholas J. Turro (born May 18, 1938 in Middletown, Connecticut) is an American chemist, Wm. P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He is the recipient of the 2011 Arthur C. Cope Award in Organic Chemistry, given annually "to recognize outstanding achievement in the field of organic chemistry, the significance of which has become apparent within the five years preceding the year in which the award will be considered."^[1][2] He is also the recipient of the 2000 Willard Gibbs Award, which recognizes "eminent chemists who...have brought to the world developments that enable everyone to live more comfortably and to understand this world better."^[3]

He received his B.A. degree summa cum laude from Wesleyan University in 1960. He attended graduate school at Caltech where he received his Ph.D. degree with George S. Hammond in 1963. Following a postdoctoral year at Harvard with P. D. Bartlett, he joined the faculty at Columbia University where today he is the Wm. P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry.^[4]

He authored the influential books Molecular Photochemistry published in 1965, considered the "bible" of the field for several generations by organic photochemists, and Modern Molecular Photochemistry published in 1978. The latter was comprehensively revised as Principles of Molecular Photochemistry: An Introduction in 2008 and later as Modern Molecular Photochemistry of Organic Molecules in 2010 both of which were co-authored with V. Ramamurthy at University of Miami and J.C. Scaiano at the University of Ottawa. Turro has been selected as one of the most highly cited chemists for the past two decades, and has published over 900 research papers.^[5] He is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[6]

References

1. ^ http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=1319&content_id=CTP_004495&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1
2. ^ http://turmac13.chem.columbia.edu/
3. ^ http://chicagoacs.net/Gibbs_history.html
4. ^ http://alumni.caltech.edu/distinguished_alumni/search_results?search_text=sherman
5. ^ http://pubs.acs.org/action/doSearch?searchText=[all%3A+%22Nicholas+J.+Turro%22]
6. ^ http://www.i-aps.org/turro.html

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Name	Turro, Nicholas
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Date of birth	May 18, 1938
Place of birth	Middletown, Connecticut, USA
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