Nicholas Turro

Nicholas J. Turro (born May 18, 1938 in Middletown (Connecticut) , † November 24, 2012 ) was an American chemist (photochemistry). He was a professor at Columbia University .

Turro studied chemistry at Wesleyan University with a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in 1960 and received his doctorate in 1963 under George S. Hammond at Caltech . As a post-graduate student , he was with Paul Doughty Bartlett at Harvard University . He then became a professor at Columbia University, most recently as William P. Schweitzer Professor. In 1966 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . From 1981 to 1983 he was the Faculty of Chemistry and from 1997 to 2000 the Faculty of Chemical Engineering (with George W. Flynn). He died of pancreatic cancer.

He has published over 900 papers and authored standard works on organic photochemistry.

He received the ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry in 1999, the Arthur C. Cope Award in 2011 and the Willard Gibbs Award in 2000 . In 2005 he gave the Theodor Förster Memorial Lecture . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

• Molecular Photochemistry , Benjamin 1965
• Modern Molecular Photochemistry , Benjamin / Cummings 1978
  • New editions as Principles of Molecular Photochemistry: An Introduction , University Science Books, Sausalito 2009, and Modern Molecular Photochemistry of Organic Molecules , University Science Books, Sausalito, 2010, with V. Ramamurthy and JC Scaiano

Web links

• Homepage at Columbia University
• obituary