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Barry Sharpless, Ph.D. Organic/Inorganic Chemist W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, BCC-315 La Jolla, California 92037 Tel: 858.784.7505 sharples@scripps.edu Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 28, 1941 EDUCATION Dartmouth College, B.A., 1963, research supervisor Thomas A. Spencer Stanford University, Ph.D., 1968, organic chemistry, supervisor Eugene E. Van Tamelen Stanford University, Postdoc, 1968, inorganic/organometallic chemistry, supervisor James P. Collman Harvard University, Postdoc, 1969, enzymology, supervisor Konrad E. Bloch EMPLOYMENT Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty1970-7, 1980-90, Arthur C. Cope Professor from 1987 Stanford University faculty, 1977-80 The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) faculty, W. M. Keck Professor, 1990- Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at TSRI, 1996- HONORARY DEGREES, APPOINTMENTS, FELLOW/MEMBERSHIPS National Science Foundation Doctoral Fellow, 1963 National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Fellow, 1968 A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1973 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Fellow, 1973 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, 1984 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow, 1984 National Academy of Sciences, Member, 1985 Sherman Fairchild Foundation Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1987 Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1987 Dartmouth College, Honorary Doctorate, 1995 Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Honorary Doctorate, 1995 Technical University of Munich, Honorary Doctorate, 1995 Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, Honorary Doctorate, 1996 Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain, Honorary Fellow, 1997 Wesleyan University, Honorary Doctorate, 1999 Kitasato Institute, Honorary Member, Tokyo, 2002 Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Distinguished Honorary Professor, 2002 National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Honorary Doctorate, 2004 Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Honorary Professor and Member, Academic Committee, 2004 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Honorary Doctorate, 2007 Nanjing University, Honorary Professor, 2008 Kyushu University, Distinguished University Professor, 2010 Tianjin University, China, Honorary Professor, 2010 Florida Center for Heterocyclic Compounds, University of Florida, Honorary Fellow, 2011 Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Honorary Professor, 2012 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY AWARDS Award for Creative Work in Organic Synthesis, 1983 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 1986 Harrison Howe Award, Rochester Section, 1987 Ira Remsen Award, Maryland Section, 1989 Arthur C. Cope Award, 1992 San Diego Scientist of the Year, San Diego Section, 1992 Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry, 1997 Top 75 contributors to the Chemical Enterprise, Chemical & Engineering News, 1998 Theodore William Richards Medal, Northeastern Section, 1998 Wallace Carothers Award, Delaware Section, 1999 William H. Nichols Medalist, New York Section, 2006 F. A. Cotton Medal, Texas A&M Section, 2014 OTHER AWARDS/HONORS Pfizer Distinguished Lecturer, Michigan State University, 1984 Allan R Day Award, Philadelphia Organic Chemists' Club, 1985 H. C. Brown Lecturer, Purdue University, 1985 Inaugural Paul Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, 1986 American Institute of Chemists Chemical Pioneer Award, 1988 Vladimir Prelog Medal for Stereochemistry, ETH, Zurich, 1988 Rolf Sammet Award, Gothe Universitat, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1988 Smissman Medal, University of Kansas, 1989 Dartmouth College, Dreyfus Lecturer, 1989 Scheele Medal, Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1991 Tetrahedron Prize, 1993 Centenary Lecture Medalist, Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain, 1993 Burger Lecture, University of Virginia, 1993 Nelson Leonard Distinguished Lecturer, University of Illinois, 1993 Turner Memorial Lecturer, Rice University, 1994 Cliff Hamilton Lectureship, University of Nebraska, 1995 King Faisal International Prize in Science, Saudi Arabia, 1995 Melvin Calvin Lectureship, University of California at Berkeley, 1995 Gilbert Stork Lecturer, Columbia University, 1996 Inaugural Barton Lecturer, Texas A&M, 1997 Microbial Chemistry Medal, Kitasato Institute, Tokyo, 1997 Harvey Science and Technology Prize, Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Haifa, 1998 Paul N. Rylander Award, Organic Reactions Catalysis Society, 2000 Rhone Poulenc Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdo, 2000 Chemical Sciences Award, National Academy of Sciences, 2000 Chirality Medal, Italian Chemical Society, 2000 Edgar Fahs Smith Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, 2000 Gooch-Stephens Lecture, Baylor University, 2001 Reuben Benjamin Sandin Lecture, University of Alberta, 2001 Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 2001 Wolf Prize, Weizmann Institute, Tel Aviv, 2001 John Scott Medal Award, City of Philadelphia, 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2001 Inaugural Cornforth Lecture, dedication of Cornforth Foundation for Chemistry, U of Sydney, 2002 Danforth Lecture, Grinnell College, 2002 Fred H. Robbins Lectures, Pomona College, 2003 Melvin Calvin Lectureship, University of California at Berkeley, 2003 Sessler Lecture, Stanford University, 2005 Novartis Central Europe Lecturer, 2005 Grand Gold Medal of Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2005 Inaugural Masamune Memorial Lecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006 Inaugural Jeremiah P. Freeman Organic Synthesis Lecture, Notre Dame University 2006 Backer Lecture, University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2006 Wheeler Lecture, University College Dublin, 2006 Closs Lecture, University of Chicago, 2006 C. S. Marvel Lecture, University of Illinois, 2007 Johnston Lecturer, Emory University, 2007 Dartmouth College, Dreyfus Lecturer, 2009 George Olah Lecturer, University of Southern California, 2009 Jose Medal of Honor, Institute of Chemistry of Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2010 Andrew D. Dorsey Memorial Award Lecture, University of California at Berkeley, 2011 Abbott Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, 2011 Shain Colloquium Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, 2011 Seo Nam Distinguished Scholar Lecture, Seoul National University, 2012 Donald J. Cram Lecture, University of California at Los Angeles, 2013 Tsinghua University Top Talk, 2013 August Wilheim von Hofmann Lectureship, The German Chemical Society, 2015 Max Tischler Award Lecture, Tufts University, 2015 JOURNAL EDITORIAL/ADVISORY BOARDS Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis Beilstein Database Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan Chirality Current Drug Discovery Technologies Organic Letters Enantiomer Synlett

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