PULLMAN – The 2010 Abelson Lecture at WSU will be delivered by Tobin J. Marks, one of the world’s foremost authorities in the fields of organometallic chemistry, chemical catalysis, materials science, organic electronics, photovoltaics and nanotechnology.
He is the Ipatieff Professor of Chemistry and professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University.
Marks’ research has had a major impact on contemporary inorganic chemistry, with seminal work in f-element chemistry, organic electrical conductors, photonic materials, organometallic vapor epitaxies and development of olefin polymerization catalysts.
Marks’ lecture, “Polymeric and Molecular Materials and Processes for Unconventional Organic, Inorganic and Organometallic Electronic Circuitry,” will be 4:10 p.m. Friday, April 2, in Fulmer 125.
Marks received his bachelor’s of science in chemistry from the University of Maryland in1966 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 working with professor Albert Cotton. Marks has co-authored more than 900 publications and mentored more than 100 Ph.D. students. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the AAAS, and recipient of the 2005 U.S. Medal of Science and more than 50 other named lectureships and awards.
The Abelson Family Lecture was created by 1960 WSU physics alumnus John Abelson and his wife Christine Guthrie. The couple created the lectureship in honor of members of his family who are WSU alumni and among the nation’s leading scientists and engineers.
The 2010 Abelson Lecture is presented by the WSU Department of Chemistry in the College of Sciences.