Distinguished Service Award

2006 DIVISION OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS: SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

Professor S. Richard Turner

The recipient of the 2006 American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Distinguished Service Award is S. Richard Turner.  Richard was active in various aspects of the governance of PMSE for over 20 years, starting out as a Member-at-Large, followed by serving as Program Chairman and eventually serving as PMSE Chair in 1992.  During his tenure as Chair, he established the Cooperative Research Award endowed by the Eastman Kodak Company and the Distinguished Service Award.  These new awards helped PMSE win the outstanding large division award from ACS in 1993 for the first time. Richard was also an Alternate Councilor for two years, Symposium Funding Chair for eight years, Chair of the Cooperative Research Award Committee for seven years, and was General Secretary of the Macromolecular Secretariat in 1995.

Richard is currently the Director of the Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute and a Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Virginia Tech.  He retired as a Research Fellow at Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, Tennessee in December of 2004 to accept this position.  A native of Nashville, Tennessee Richard received his undergraduate training in chemistry at Tennessee Tech.  He obtained his Ph.D. in organic polymer chemistry from the University of Florida in 1971 (with G. B. Butler) and spent one year as a post doc in polymer chemistry in Darmstadt, Germany (with R. C. Schulz).  After working in the corporate research labs of Xerox and Exxon, he joined the Research Laboratories of the Eastman Kodak Company in 1982 and transferred to the Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport in 1993.  During his industrial polymer research career he had the opportunity to be involved in a broad range of polymer research topics, both fundamental and applied, including photoconducting polymers, water soluble polymers, ionomers, microresists, living radical polymerizations, dendritic/hyperbranched polymers, and high performance polyesters.

Richard was a member of the Advisory Board of the Petroleum Research Fund of the ACS from 1999 to 2005 and has served on several NSF review panels. He was a member of the industrial advisory board for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Florida and currently serves on the scientific advisory board for KensaGroup. He has served on the editorial board of several journals and is currently an editorial board member for the Journal of Polymer Science -- Part A: Polymer Chemistry and Polymer Reviews.  He was recently named as the Americas Editor of Chemistry and Synthesis for POLYMER.   He holds over 100 patents and has over 80 publications in various areas of polymer chemistry. He was a CUMIRP lecturer at University of Massachusetts in 1990 and presented the Stein-Bayer lecture at University of Massachusetts in 2002.   He received a Distinguished Inventor’s Award from Eastman Kodak in 1993 and was selected as a PMSE Fellow in 2002.  In 2004 he was named an alumnus of the year at Tennessee Tech, received the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Chemistry Department Outstanding Alumni Award, and was named as one of Tennessee’s Top Ten Scientists by Business Tennessee magazine.  He received the “Speaker of the Year” award from the Northeast Tennessee section of the ACS in 2005.

Richard is married to the former Pamela Sue Webb and has two daughters, Lindsay and Lauren.

Past recipients of the Distinguished Service Award include:

1993	Roy W. Tess
1994	E. E. McSweeney
1995	Louis J. Nowacki
1996	Kenneth N. Edwards
1999	Clara D. Craver
2000	Sandy Labana
2001	John Lupinski
2002	Charles E. Carraher
2003	Theodore Provder
2004	Ray Dickie
2005	Larry F. Thompson
2006	S. Richard Turner

Past Distinguished Service Award Winners

2001 Service Award Winner

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