Chemistry: The Central Science in SI Units, Expanded Edition, Global Edition

About Bruce BurstenCatherine MurphyH. LeMayMatthew StoltzfusPatrick WoodwardTheodore Brown

THEODORE L. BROWN received hisPh.D. from Michigan State University in 1956. Since then he has been a memberof the faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he is nowProfessor of Chemistry Emeritus. He served as Vice Chancellor for Researchand Dean of The Graduate College from 1980 to 1986 and as Founding Directorof the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technologyfrom 1987 to 1993. Professor Brown has been an Alfred P. Sloan FoundationResearch Fellow and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1972 he wasawarded the American Chemical Society Award for Research in Inorganic Chemistryand received the American Chemical Society Award for Distinguished Service inthe Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry in 1993. He has been elected a Fellow ofthe American Association for the Advancement of Science the American Academyof Arts and Sciences and the American Chemical Society. H. EUGENE LEMAY JR. received his B.S. degreein Chemistry from Pacific Lutheran University (Washington) and his Ph.D.inChemistry in 1966 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He thenjoined the faculty of the University of Nevada Reno where he is currentlyProfessor of Chemistry Emeritus. He has enjoyed Visiting Professorships at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at the University College of Walesin Great Britain and at the University of California Los Angeles. ProfessorLeMay is a popular and effective teacher who has taught thousands of studentsduring more than 40 years of university teaching. Known for the clarity of hislectures and his sense of humor he has received several teaching awardsincluding the University Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award (1991) and thefirst Regents Teaching Award given by the State of Nevada Board of Regents (1997). BRUCE E. BURSTEN received his Ph.D.in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1978. After two years as aNational Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Texas A&M University hejoined the faculty of The Ohio State University where he rose to the rank ofDistinguished University Professor. In 2005 he moved to the University ofTennessee Knoxville as Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Dean of theCollege of Arts and Sciences. Professor Bursten has been a Camille and HenryDreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ResearchFellow and he is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancementof Science and the American Chemical Society. At Ohio State he has received theUniversity Distinguished Teaching Award in 1982 and 1996 the Arts and SciencesStudent Council Outstanding Teaching Award in 1984 and the UniversityDistinguished Scholar Award in 1990. He received the Spiers Memorial Prize andMedal of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2003 and the Morley Medal of theCleveland Section of the American Chemical Society in 2005. He was President ofthe American Chemical Society for 2008. In addition to his teaching and serviceactivities Professor Burstens research program focuses on compounds of thetransition-metal and actinide elements. CATHERINE J. MURPHY received twoB.S. degrees one in Chemistry and one in Biochemistry from the University ofIllinois Urbana-Champaign in 1986. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry fromthe University of Wisconsin in 1990. She was a National Science Foundation andNational Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Instituteof Technology from 1990 to 1993. In 1993 she joined the faculty of theUniversity of South Carolina Columbia becoming the Guy F. Lipscomb Professorof Chemistry in 2003. In 2009 she moved to the University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign as the Peter C. and Gretchen Miller Markunas Professor ofChemistry. Professor Murphy has been honored for both research and teaching asa Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ResearchFellow a Cottrell Scholar of the Research Corporation a National ScienceFoundation CAREER Award winner and a subsequent NSF Award for SpecialCreativity. She has also received a USC Mortar Board Excellence in TeachingAward the USC Golden Key Faculty Award for Creative Integration of Researchand Undergraduate Teaching the USC Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate TeachingAward and the USC Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award. Since 2006Professor Murphy has served as a Senior Editor for the Journal of PhysicalChemistry. In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for theAdvancement of Science. Professor Murphys research program focuses on thesynthesis and optical properties of inorganic nanomaterials and on the localstructure and dynamics of the DNA double helix. PATRICK M. WOODWARD received B.S. degreesin both Chemistry and Engineering from Idaho State University in 1991.Hereceived a M.S. degree in Materials Science and a Ph.D. in Chemistry fromOregon State University in 1996. He spent two years as a post-doctoralresearcher in the Department of Physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory.In1998 he joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department at The Ohio StateUniversity where he currently holds the rank of Professor. He has enjoyedvisiting professorship sat the University of Bordeaux in France and the Universityof Sydney in Australia. Professor Woodward has been an Alfred P. SloanFoundation Research Fellow and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award winner.He currently serves as an Associate Editor to the Journal of Solid StateChemistry and as the director of the Ohio REEL program an NSF-funded centerthat works to bring authentic research experiments into the laboratories offirst- and second-year chemistry classes in 15 colleges and universities acrossthe state of Ohio. Professor Woodwards research program focuses on understandingthe links between bonding structure and properties of solid-state inorganicfunctional materials. MATTHEW W. STOLTZFUS received his B.S.degree in Chemistry from Millersville University in 2002 and his Ph. D. inChemistry in2007 from The Ohio State University. He spent two years as ateaching postdoctoral assistant for the Ohio REEL program an NSF-funded centerthat works to bring authentic research experiments into the general chemistrylab curriculum in 15 colleges and universities across the state of Ohio. In2009 he joined the faculty of Ohio State where he currently holds the positionof Chemistry Lecturer. In addition to lecturing general chemistry Stoltzfusaccepted the Faculty Fellow position for the Digital First Initiativeinspiring instructors to offer engaging digital learning content to studentsthrough emerging technology. Through this initiative he developed an iTunesUgeneral chemistry course which has attracted over 120000 students from all overthe world. Stoltzfus has received several teaching awards including theinaugural Ohio State University2013 Provosts Award for Distinguished Teachingby a Lecturer and he is recognized as an Apple Distinguished Educator.