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Free Radicals era alumni (1963-1979)
1965
Darsh T. Wasan (Ph.D., ChE) received a Langmuir Lecture Award this
year from the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry. He is the
Motorola Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering and vice president for
international affairs at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he works
on dispersion science and engineering. He has held a variety of major
academic and administrative posts in his career at IIT, and has served
as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Colloid & Interface Science since
1993. Here at Berkeley, he gave one of the eulogies at the memorial service
for Charles Wilke.
1969
Christopher A. Lapinski (Ph.D., Chem) has been named the winner
of the ACS’s 2005 E. B. Hershberg Award for Important Discoveries in Medicinally
Active Substances. He is retired from Pfizer Global Research & Development.
1976
M. Douglas LeVan (Ph.D., ChE) was named J. Lawrence Wilson Professor
of Engineering at Vanderbilt University, having previously been Centennial
Professor of Chemical Engineering. He serves as chair of the chemical
engineering department, and is one of the world’s leading scholars in
adsorption processes. He is currently developing equipment to make oxygen
from the atmosphere on Mars.
1977
Marc Machbitz (B.S., ChE) retired from ChevronTexaco this June
and moved with his family to Dallas.
1978
Scott M. Rocklage (B.S. , Chem), who received his Ph.D. in chemistry
from MIT, recently retired as CEO of Cubist Pharmaceuticals in Lexington,
MA. He now works as a venture capital investor with 5AM Ventures, a firm
that specializes in seed and early-stage life science start-up companies.
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