George M. Whitesides

George M. Whitesides is Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Harvard University. George M. Whitesides was born August 3, 1939 in Louisville, KY. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1960 and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (with J.D. Roberts) in 1964. He was a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1982. He joined the Department of Chemistry of Harvard University in 1982, and was Department Chairman 1986-89, and Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry from 1982-2004. He is now the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor. Recent Awards: Priestley Award (American Chemical Society) (2007) R&D Magazine's Scientist of the Year (2007) August Wilhelm von Hofmann Lecture, German Chemical Society (2007) American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2007) Wheland Medal (U. Chicago) (2008)