Chemistry, Biology, and the Future

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Harry Gray

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Harry Gray is Arnold 0. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and director of the Beckman Institpte at the California Institute of Technology. Professor Gray received his B.S. from Western Kentucky University in 1957, and he completed his doctorate in inorganic chemistry at Northwestern University in 1960 as a graduate student of Fred Basolo and Ralph Pearson. After a year of postdoctoral research with Carl Ballhausen at the University of Copenhagen, he joined the chemistry faculty at Columbia University. In 1966 he moved to Caltech. Professor Gray has received several national and international awards as well as honorary doctorate from Northwestern and the Universities of Rochester, Chicago, Toulouse and Goteborg.He was presented with the National Medal of Science in 1986. Recently he has received the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal, the Priestly Medal of the American Chemical Society, the Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic Chemistry, the Waterford Award of the Scripps Research Institute, the Gibbs Medal, and the Linderstrnm-Lang Prize.

His work: Professor Gray has made important contributions to virtually every area of modern inorganic chemistry, including such diverse fields as the kinetics and mechanisms of inorganic reactions, the nature of chemical bonding, the photochemistry, spectroscopy, and magnetochemistry of inorganic compounds, and the roles of metal ions in biology. A pioneer in the development of the science of bioinorganic chemistry, Professor Gray continues to be a leader of this important field. Particularly noteworthy are his studies of the properties of metalloenzymes and of the rates and mechanisms of electron transfer in biological systems.

(Text taken from the Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series Program 1993-1994).

Keywords

Inorganic Chemistry, biology, kinetics

Creation Date

April 23, 1994

Recommended Citation

Gray, Harry, "Chemistry, Biology, and the Future" (1994). DSLS 1993-1994. 6.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/dsls_1993_1994/6