Stephen Lippard

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Stephen Lippard

Stephen James Lippard (born October 12, 1940 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is an American chemist .

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Lippard received his bachelor's degree from Haverford College in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1965 from Frank Albert Cotton. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with the work Chemistry of the bromorhenates . He then did a postdoc there before moving to Columbia University in 1966 , where he was Assistant Professor until 1969 , Associate Professor from 1969 to 1972 and Professor of Chemistry from 1972 to 1982. In the same position he worked at MIT from 1983 to 1989. Since 1989 he has been Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry there. Research stays took him to the University of Gothenburg in 1972 , to the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge , England in 1979 , to the Technical University of Munich in 1988 and to the University of California, San Diego in 1998 .

Lippard works in the fields of inorganic chemistry , bio-organic chemistry and neurochemistry . He deals with the synthesis and determination of the chemical structure of transition metal - complexes . He studies and improves chemotherapeutic agents with complex-bound platinum atoms , such as cisplatin . He studies hydroxylase with two metal ions and other metalloproteins , including methane monooxygenase .

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  1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Stephen James Lippard at academictree.org, accessed on May 26, 2018.
  2. ^ Members: Stephen J. Lippard. Royal Irish Academy, accessed May 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Member entry by Stephen Lippard (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 17, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Lippard, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lippard, Stephen J .; Lippard, Stephen James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania