Mary L. Good

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Mary Lowe Good (born June 20, 1931 in Grapevine , Texas , as Mary Lowe ; † November 20, 2019 in Little Rock , Arkansas ) was an American chemist . She was a professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Louisiana State University and a presidential advisor.

Life

Mary Lowe was the daughter of school teachers and moved with her parents from Texas to Arkansas in 1943 , where her father was the headmaster. She studied chemistry (initially also home economics) at the University of Central Arkansas with a bachelor's degree and was born in 1955 at the University of Arkansas with Raymond R. Edwards with the work A tracer study of the distribution of iodine at low concentrations between carbon disulfide and water doctorate . She became an assistant professor of chemistry at Louisiana State University , first in Baton Rouge and from 1958 in New Orleans . In 1978 she was back on the Baton Rouge campus as Boyd Professor of Chemistry . In 1980 she left the university and became Vice President and Research Director at Universal Oil Products and stayed there during various takeovers and name changes, most recently as Vice President for Technology at AlliedSignal . She was a presidential advisor as early as the 1970s and turned to administrative and advisory tasks from 1993 when she became the Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology in the United States Department of Commerce under President Bill Clinton . In April 1996 she was acting head of the agency for a short period following the accidental death of Minister Ron Brown . She then went back to the University of Arkansas and held a management role in the Arkansas Future Fund.

In the 1960s she investigated organometallic compounds (especially those with ruthenium) using Mössbauer spectroscopy .

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In 1997 she was the first woman to receive the Priestley Medal , in 1998 the Othmer Gold Medal and in 2000 the Heinz Award . She received the Glenn T. Seaborg Medal , the IRI Medal , the Garvan-Olin Medal , the Vannevar Bush Award, and the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal . In 1987 she succeeded George C. Pimentel as President of the American Chemical Society and in 2001 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , where she succeeded Stephen Jay Gould . Under Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan , she was (board which she became the first woman) in National Science Board and George Bush in the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology of the US president. From 1987 she was a member of the National Academy of Engineering . In 1999 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2000 to the American Philosophical Society .

She married a fellow student in Arkansas, the physicist William L. Good, and had two children with him. In her spare time, she studied fly fishing and Scottish history.

She died in Little Rock on November 20, 2019 at the age of 88.

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Mary Lowe Good for academictree.org, accessed on 7 February 2018th
  2. ^ Ronald H. Brown, Secretary of Commerce, Memorial Tributes. United States Congress, S. 2019 , accessed July 8, 2019 .
  3. ^ Member Directory: Mary L. Good. National Academy of Engineering, accessed August 24, 2018 .
  4. ^ Member History: Mary Lowe Good. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 24, 2018 (English, with short biography).
  5. Jan Cottingham: Mary Good, Pioneering Arkansas Scientist, Dies at 88. In: ArkansasBusiness.com. November 20, 2019, accessed November 21, 2019 .