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Current position: Professor and Emily Tow Chair in Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Education: BSc and MSc, chemistry, University of Essex; PhD, biochemistry, University of Kent Lewis on who inspired him to become a scientist: “Sir Patrick Moore, an amateur astronomer who had a British TV show. When I was a child and watching the show, he said (after the launch of […]
Current position: Simón-Ellebracht Professor in Medicinal Chemistry and professor of radiology, University of Missouri Education: BS, chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Superior; PhD, inorganic chemistry, Florida State University Anderson on her scientific hero: “Marie Curie is my scientific hero. Science was her life both professionally and personally. She married her scientific partner (Pierre Curie) and inspired her daughter (Irène) to be a Nobel Prize […]
Haire earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and his doctorate in chemistry from Michigan State University. He joined ORNL in 1966, led the laboratory’s transuranium chemistry group and served as a full adjunct professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee. Known for his forefront, fundamental studies of the actinide family of elements, Haire, while at ORNL, […]