Orville L. Chapman

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Orville Lamar Chapman (born June 26, 1932 in New London , Connecticut, † January 22, 2004 in Los Angeles ) was an American chemist (organic chemistry).

Chapman was the son of a naval officer and grew up in various cities in the United States and Panama. He attended high school in San Diego and graduated from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute with bachelor's degrees in chemistry and English. In 1957 he received his PhD in chemistry (organic synthesis) from Cornell University under Jerrold Meinwald . From 1957 he was first instructor and from 1964 professor at Iowa State University . In 1962 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . From 1974 he was at the University of California, Los Angeles .

He was a pioneer in organic photochemistry and dealt with matrix isolation spectroscopy with application to the characterization of short-lived intermediate reaction products such as didehydrobenzene (benzyne) and cyclobutadiene .

In the 1980s he worked on the renewal of the chemistry curriculum, first in the production of video teaching material for an introduction to organic chemistry with NMR . In 1989 he became Associate Dean for Teaching Innovation at UCLA.

In 1978 he received the Arthur C. Cope Award , in 1968 the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry and in 1974 the Texas Instruments Founders Prize. In 1974 he became a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • with Charles DePuy Molecular reactions and photochemistry , Prentice Hall 1972
  • Editor of Organic Photochemistry (Marcel Dekker, from 1967)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Orville L. Chapman at academictree.org, accessed on 28 January 2018th
personal data
SURNAME Chapman, Orville L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chapman, Orville Lamar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH New London (Connecticut)
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2004
Place of death los Angeles