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Galen D. Stucky

Galen D. Stucky (born 17 December 1936) is an American inorganic materials chemist who is a Distinguished Professor and the Essam Khashoggi Chair In Materials Chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[1] He is noted for his work with porous ordered mesoporous materials such as SBA-15. He won the Prince of Asturias Award in 2014, in the Scientific and Technological Research area. Stucky was elected a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994,[2] a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005,[3] and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.[4][5]

Galen D. Stucky
Born (1936-12-17) December 17, 1936 (age 87)
Alma materIowa State University Ph.D. (1962)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

DuPont Central Research and Development
Sandia National Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis Molecular Configurations of Some of the Solvated Compounds of the Grignard System ProQuest 288095659  (1962)
Doctoral advisorRobert E. Rundle
Other academic advisorsClifford G. Shull
Doctoral students
Other notable students
Websitewww.chem.ucsb.edu/people/galen-stucky

Early life and education

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Stucky was born on December 17, 1936, in McPherson, Kansas.[6][7] He graduated with a Bachelor's of Science degree at McPherson College in 1957.[6] Stucky pursued graduate studies at Iowa State University, where he worked under Prof. Robert E. Rundle on the synthesis and characterization of the diethyl ether-solvated phenylmagnesium bromide Grignard reagent,[8][9] and an oxidation product formed from its exposure to oxygen.[10] Stucky received his PhD in physical chemistry in 1962.[1] From 1962 to 1963, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Prof. Clifford G. Shull.[6]

Career

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Stucky began his independent academic career in 1964 as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and was promoted to full professor in 1972.[6] In 1980, he left UIUC to work at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he led the Solid State Materials Group there.[6][11] From 1981 to 1985, he worked at the Central Research and Development Laboratory of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. in Wilmington, Delaware, where he was a group and research leader.[6][11]

In 1985, Stucky joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the E. Khashoggi Industries, LLC Professor in Letters and Science, Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (College of Letters and Science), Professor in the Materials Department (College of Engineering), and a member of the Interdepartmental Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.[12]

Notability

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Stucky has been ranked in the top five most-cited materials scientists in the world, according to Thomson Scientific's in-cites publication (more than 80 publications with over 60 citations).[13] According to another publication by Thomson in late 2006, his work involving SBA was the most-cited paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.[14] In 2007 his Hirsch index rating ranked in the top 40 among living chemists,[15] and he was ranked in the top 30 most-cited scientists in chemistry by in-cites in late 2007.[16] In June 2008, Sciencewatch.com featured "Mesoporous Materials" as a Special Topics analysis publication.[17]

He is also the co-chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), A*STAR, Singapore[18] which is headed by Jackie Y. Ying (Executive Director of IBN[19] and adjunct professor of chemical engineering at MIT[20]).

Research group

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Alumni of Stucky's research group include Angela Belcher of MIT, Peidong Yang at UC Berkeley,Dongyuan Zhao at Fudan University, Yiying Wu at Ohio State, Kyong-Shin Choi at Wisconsin and Shannon Boettcher at the University of Oregon among many other notable scientists.[21] In late 2006, former and current group members and colleagues gathered for a Symposium on Recent Advances in Nanoscale Materials Research at UCSB to celebrate Stucky's 70th birthday.[22] The event was hosted by CNSI (Elings Hall[23]) at UCSB.[24]

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  • Google Scholar / Galen Stucky
  • Galen D. Stucky on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Journal of Solid State Chemistry 167, 265–266 (2002).[6]
  • Father of Mesoporous Materials: Galen D. Stucky. Chem. Mater. 2014, 26, 20, 5819–5820.[25]
  • interview with ScienceWatch.com correspondent Gary Taubes in 2002.[26]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Galen Stucky | Department of Chemistry - UC Santa Barbara". www.chem.ucsb.edu. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
  2. ^ Cohen, Julie (September 25, 2014). "Another List of Laureates". The UCSB Current. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
  3. ^ "Galen D. Stucky". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
  4. ^ Fernandez, Sonia (April 30, 2013). "UCSB Professor Galen Stucky Elected to National Academy of Sciences". The UCSB Current.
  5. ^ "Galen D. Stucky". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Cheetham, Anthony K.; Eckert, Hellmut; Rao, C.N.R. (September 2002). "Galen D. Stucky on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday". Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 167 (2): 265–266. doi:10.1006/jssc.2002.9726.
  7. ^ Stucky, Galen D. (1962). Molecular Configurations of Some of the Solvated Compounds of the Grignard System (Ph.D. thesis). ProQuest 288095659.[non-primary source needed]
  8. ^ Stucky, Galen D.; Rundle, R. E. (April 1963). "The Structure of Phenylmagnesium Bromide Dietherate and the Nature of Grignard Reagents". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 85 (7): 1002–1003. doi:10.1021/ja00890a039.[non-primary source needed]
  9. ^ Stucky, G.; Rundle, R. E. (November 1964). "The Constitution of the Grignard Reagent, Phenylmagnesium Bromide Dietherate". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 86 (22): 4825–4830. doi:10.1021/ja01076a020.[non-primary source needed]
  10. ^ Stucky, G.; Rundle, R. E. (November 1964). "The Crystal and Molecular Structure of Mg4Br6O·4C4H10O, a Grignard Reagent Oxidation Product". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 86 (22): 4821–4825. doi:10.1021/ja01076a019.[non-primary source needed]
  11. ^ a b "Stucky Group Biography". labs.chem.ucsb.edu. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
  12. ^ "The Stucky Group: Home at UCSB". Chem.ucsb.edu. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
  13. ^ "Second Bimonthly Period of 2007 – Top 10 Researchers In Materials Science". in-cites. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
  14. ^ "SCI-BYTES: Top Ten Most-Cited Journals (All Fields), 1996–2006". In-cites.com. Archived from the original on June 9, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
  15. ^ "H-index ranking of living chemists". Rsc.org. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
  16. ^ "Most-Cited Scientists in Chemistry (Jan 97 – Jun 07)". In-cites.com. Archived from the original on June 4, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
  17. ^ "Mesoporous Materials, Special Topics, sciencewatch.com, June 2008". Sciencewatch.com. February 29, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
  18. ^ "Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology". Archived from the original on September 16, 2007. Retrieved February 22, 2008.
  19. ^ "Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology". Archived from the original on October 10, 2007. Retrieved February 22, 2008.
  20. ^ MIT – Department of Chemical Engineering. "Jackie Y. Ying's profile at MIT". Web.mit.edu. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
  21. ^ "Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT". Belcher10.mit.edu. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
  22. ^ Symposium on Recent Advances in Nanoscale Materials Research at UCSB, December 8, 2006[dead link‍]
  23. ^ "UCSB Receives $12.5 Million Gift from Virgil Elings and Betty Elings, 4 June 2007". Ia.ucsb.edu. June 4, 2007. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
  24. ^ "California NanoSystems Institute (Elings Hall), UCSB". Cnsi.ucsb.edu. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
  25. ^ Toro, Carlos; Buriak, Jillian M. (October 28, 2014). "Father of Mesoporous Materials: Galen D. Stucky: Member of the Chemistry of Materials ' 1k Club". Chemistry of Materials. 26 (20): 5819–5820. doi:10.1021/cm503557g.
  26. ^ Taubes, Gary (November 2008). "Galen Stucky - Special Topic of Mesoporous Materials - ScienceWatch.com". archive.sciencewatch.com. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
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