MIT Chemistry Department

MIT Chemistry Department

The Chemistry Department at MIT is one of the top university faculties in the world. Research interests cover the entire field of chemistry, ranging from organic chemistry and biological chemistry to physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, environmental chemistry, materials science and nanoscience.

The department can boast several Nobel Laureates among its faculty and alumni. They are:
* Robert B. Woodward (Chemistry, 1965)
* Robert S. Mulliken (Chemistry, 1966)
* H. Gobind Khorana (Medicine & Physiology, 1968)
* Geoffrey Wilkinson (Chemistry, 1973)
* Charles J. Pedersen (Chemistry 1987)
* Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech (Chemistry, 1989)
* Elias J. Corey (Chemistry, 1990)
* Mario Molina (Chemistry, 1995)
* K. Barry Sharpless (Chemistry, 2001)
* Aaron Ciechanover (Chemistry, 2004)
* Richard R. Schrock (Chemistry, 2005).

History

MIT's Chemistry department has been around since the Institute opened its doors in 1865. It started with two professors, Charles W. Eliot and Francis H. Storer, and a class of 15 students.

In 1866, the department moved to its new quarters in the basement of the Rogers Building in Boston. Cyrus Warren joined the faculty, and became MIT's first professor of organic chemistry.

In 1907, MIT awarded its first Ph.D. to three students in the field of physical chemistry.

Faculty

Current members

* Robert A. Alberty
* Moungi G. Bawendi
* Klaus Biemann
* Stephen L. Buchwald
* Jianshu Cao
* Sylvia Ceyer
* Arup K. Chakraborty
* Christopher C. Cummins, Ph.D. 1993
* Rick L. Danheiser
* Alan Davison
* John M. Deutch, S.B. 1961, Ph.D. 1966
* Catherine L. Drennan
* John M. Essigmann, S.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1976
* Robert W. Field
* Gregory C. Fu, S.B. 1985
* Carl W. Garland
* Frederick D. Greene
* Robert G. Griffin
* Barbara Imperiali, Ph.D. 1983
* Timothy F. Jamison
* H. Gobind Khorana
* Alexander M. Klibanov
* Stuart S. Licht, Ph.D. 1998
* Stephen J. Lippard, Ph.D. 1965
* Mohammad Movassaghi
* Keith A. Nelson
* Daniel G. Nocera
* Sarah E. O'Connor, Ph.D. 2001
* Irwin Oppenheim
* Jonas C. Peters, Ph.D. 1998
* Richard R. Schrock
* Dietmar Seyferth
* Robert J. Silbey
* Jeffrey I. Steinfeld, S.B. 1962
* JoAnne Stubbe
* Timothy M. Swager
* Steven R. Tannenbaum, S.B. 1958, Ph.D. 1962
* Alice Y. Ting
* Andrei Tokmakoff
* Troy Van Voorhis
* John S. Waugh
* Gerald N. Wogan

Former members

* Isadore Amdur
* Avery Ashdown
* James A. Beattie
* Arthur A. Blanchard
* James Mason Crafts
* Charles W. Eliot
* Leicester F. Hamilton
* Daniel S. Kemp
* Frederick G. Keyes
* Gilbert Newton Lewis
* Mario Molina
* Forris Jewitt Moore
* Avery A. Morton
* Lewis M. Morton
* Samuel Parsons Mulliken
* James Flack Norris
* Arthur Amos Noyes, S.B. 1886
* Walter C. Schumb
* George Scatchard
* K. Barry Sharpless
* Joseph Sadighi
* Walter Stockmayer
* Franis H. Storer
* Henry P. Talbot
* William Walker
* Cyrus Warren
* Mark S. Wrighton

Notable alumni

* Sidney Altman, S.B. 1960
* Elias J. Corey, S.B. 1948, Ph.D. 1951
* Roscoe G. Dickinson
* Robert S. Mulliken, S.B. 1917
* Charles J. Pedersen, S.M. 1927
* Ellen Swallow Richards, S.B. 1873
* Robert B. Woodward, S.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1937

External links

* [http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/www/index.html MIT Chemistry Department website]
* [http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Chemistry/index.htm MIT OpenCourseWare: Chemistry]


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