Quadrennial Frank C. Whitmore Lecture

2004

On Wednesday evening, April 14, 2004, Professor Ronald Breslow of Columbia University will present the First Quadrennial Frank C. Whitmore Lecture on “Chemistry – Education and Public Policy” at Penn State. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Breslow is a recipient of the National Medal of Science, the American Chemical Society Priestley Medal, and this years $300,000 Welch Award in Chemistry. Starting with his work on the mechanism of action of Vitamin B1, Breslow has pioneered the field of biomimetic chemistry. He has served as president of the ACS and has written (author of “Chemistry Today and Tomorrow”) and spoken on the general subject of this lecture.