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Brief Biography of Fred Basolo
Fred Basolo was born in Coello, Illinois in 1920. He went to
SINU where he received a B.Ed. degree in 1940 and then to the University
of Illinois where he received a Ph.D. with John C. Balair, Jr. in
1943. After working at Rohm & Haas, he joined the faculty at
Northwestern in 1946. In 1980, the University honored him with the
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professorship of Chemistry.
Basolo is internationally recognized for his original contributions
to the syntheses and reaction mechanisms of transition-metal Werner
complexes, and he has done some of the seminal work in the developing
fields of organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry. He is also
a truly gifted teacher. Many of his former students occupy prominent
academic and industrial positions. He has over 400 scientific publications
and has coauthored two books. Basolo has influenced students worldwide
to study inorganic chemistry, and received the 1992 ACS Pimentel
Award in Chemical Education.
Equally outstanding are Basolo's contributions to the profession
of Chemistry. He served as President of the American Chemical Society
in 1983 and as Chairman of the Chemistry Section of AAAS in 1979.
He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research
Conferences and its chairman in 1976. Some of the many honors received
by Basolo include membership in the National Academy of Sciences,
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, foreign membership in
the Italian Academy of Sciences Lincei, as well as the ACS Awards
for Research and for Service in Inorganic Chemistry. He recently
received the first Joseph Chatt Medal and the 1996 Willard Gibbs
Medal.
He is currently an Emeritus Professor at Northwestern Univeristy
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