2007 Presidential Lecture in Chemistry
Nathan Lewis
Tuesday, 15 May 2007 at 8:00 pm – 1148 Gerdin Building
Nathan Lewis is a professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. He also serves as the principal investigator of the Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center at Caltech. His research interests include light-induced electron transfer reactions, photochemistry of semiconductor/liquid interfaces; novel uses of conducting organic polymers and polymer/conductor composites; and the development of sensor arrays from these polymers that use pattern recognition algorithms to identify odorants, mimicking the mammalian olfaction process. Lewis has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and a Presidential Young Investigator. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Cosponsored By:
- Chemistry
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