Marye Anne Fox
Marye Anne Fox (born December 9, 1947 in Canton (Ohio) ; † May 9, 2021 in Austin , Texas ) was an American chemist (physical organic chemistry ), presidential advisor and university administrator.
Life
Fox graduated from Notre Dame College with a bachelor's degree in 1969 and Cleveland State University with a master's degree in 1970. She received her PhD in organic chemistry in 1974 from Dartmouth College under David M. Lemal with the thesis Photorearrangements of aryl halides . During this time she also worked as a teacher. As a post-doctoral student she was at the University of Maryland at College Park and from 1976 Assistant Professor and later Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She headed the Center for Fast Kinetic Research there and became Vice President for Research at the university in 1994. In 1980 she received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ). From 1998 to 2004 she was Chancellor of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. From 2004 to 2012 she was Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego .
She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, the University of Chicago, the University of Iowa, and Taiwan.
In 2012 she received the Othmer Gold Medal and in 2010 the National Medal of Science . She is an honorary doctor of Notre Dame College. In 1989 she was an Arthur C. Cope Scholar and received the Garvan Olin Medal in 1988 . In 1991 she became a member of the National Science Board. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . She was a science advisor to George W. Bush when he was governor of Texas and was on his Council of Advisors on Science and Technology when he was president.
From 1986 she was co-editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society .
She was married to chemistry professor James K. Whitesell from 1990 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to Pamela Kalte et al., American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004.
- ^ Honoring former Chancellor Marye Anne Fox. In: ncsu.edu. Retrieved May 11, 2021 .
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Marye Anne Fox at academictree.org, accessed on February 6, 2018.
- ^ Member History: Marye Anne Fox. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 10, 2018 (with a short biography).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fox, Marye Anne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist (physical organic chemistry), presidential advisor, and university administrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Canton (Ohio) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 2021 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Austin , Texas |