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| AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY ANNOUNCES 2009 NATIONAL AWARD WINNERS |
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ACS 2009 NATIONAL AWARD WINNERS Three Chemistry Department Professors, namely Mohammad Movassaghi, Daniel G. Nocera and JoAnne Stubbe, have been selected as recipients of awards administered by the American Chemical Society for 2009. Professor Movassaghi received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award sponsored by the Arthur C. Cope Fund; Professor Nocera received the ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry sponsored by Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc. and Professor Stubbe received the Nakanishi Prize sponsored by the Nakanishi Prize Endowment
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As part of a five-part series introducing incoming students to some of MIT’s faculty, staff, and student leaders, Keone Hon, Staff Reporter in The Tech interviews Professor Moungi G. Bawendi, Lester Wolfe Professor in Chemistry. Bawendi recalls his 18 years of teaching which incudes freshmen general chemistry course 5.112 (Principles of Chemical Science), among other courses. He also discusses his background and research, and his experience advising students.
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One of the reasons food prices have risen sharply is the cost of fertilizer: Nearly 2 percent of the world's energy goes into fertilizer production, which is becoming ever more costly as fuel prices rise. For decades, chemists have sought less energy-intensive ways to produce ammonia, the main component of fertilizer. The task has proven difficult, however, and only a handful of researchers are still pursuing it.
Professor Richard R. Schrock, a Nobel laureate and the Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry has been working on the problem for nearly 30 years. In 2003, he reported the first and only catalytic productions of ammonia from nitrogen gas, using the metal molybdenum as a catalyst.
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