Peter J. Stang
Peter John Stang (born November 17, 1941 in Nuremberg ) is an American chemist .
Live and act
Stang received his bachelor's degree from DePaul University in 1963 and received his PhD in 1966 from the University of California, Berkeley with Andrew Streitwieser . From 1968 he was a post-doctoral student and instructor at Princeton University (with Paul von Ragué Schleyer ), in 1969 he became assistant professor and in 1979 professor at the University of Utah .
He deals with molecular architecture and supramolecular chemistry through self- assembly of molecules with special geometric structures (such as polyhedra , polygons ). Among other things, he succeeded in constructing a molecular dodecahedron . The ultimate goal is to build nanomolecular machines, for example for information storage or photosynthesis . He published over 400 papers and had over 30 PhD students.
He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences . He has received several Humboldt Research Awards (1977, 1996, 2010) and is an honorary doctorate from Lomonossow University (1992) and the Russian Academy of Sciences . In 1986 and 1997 he was Lady Davis visiting professor at Technion and in 1989 he was Mendeleev Lecturer in Russia. In 1987/88 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Yugoslavia.
In 2006 he received the Linus Pauling Award , he received the George Olah Award from the American Chemical Society (2003), the James Flack Norris Award from the ACS (1998), received the Priestley Medal (2013) from the ACS and in 2010 the National Medal of Science . For 2020, Stang was awarded the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal .
Since 2002 he has been editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (and Associate Editor from 1982 to 1999) and was editor of the Journal of Organic Chemistry in 2000/2001 .
In 1962 he became a US citizen. He has been married to Christine Schirmer since 1969 and has two daughters.
Fonts
- with Pierre Laszlo: Organic spectroscopy. Principles and applications. Harper and Row 1971
- Editor with Diederich, R. Tykwinski: Acetylene chemistry. Chemistry, biology, and material science. Wiley-VCH 2005
- with others: Vinyl Cations. Academic Press 1979
- with Francois Diederich: Metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions. Wiley 1989
- Editor with Zvi Rappoport : Dicoordinated carbocations. Wiley 1997
- with Diederich (editor): Templated organic synthesis. VCH 2000
- Editor with Diederich: Modern Acetylene Chemistry. VCH 1995
Web links
- Peter J. Stang on the University of Utah website
- 2006 Pauling Medal on the Western Washington University website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stang, Peter J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stang, Peter; Stang, Peter John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |