2009 DIVISION OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS: SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

Dr. Murrae J. Bowden

The recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Service Award, given by the ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) is Dr. Murrae J. Bowden. Murrae has been a member of the Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division of the American Chemical Society for 37 years, over which time he has served the Division in a number of capacities. He organized several symposia for PMSE in the area of electronics and photonic applications of polymers. He served as Secretary 1980-1981, and then progressed through the offices to become Chair in 1984. From 1985 to 1995, he served as Chairman of the Sherwin-Williams Student Award Committee, organizing and chairing the annual Sherwin-Williams Award Symposium at the Fall ACS meeting.

Murrae received his B.S. degree (First Class Honors) in Chemistry in 1965 from the University of Queensland in Australia, and a Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from the same institution in 1969. He then spent two years as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Manchester, England, and in October 1971, joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey as a member of the technical research staff. At Bell Labs, he conducted research into the effects of high-energy radiation on polymeric materials, with particular application to the development of polymeric resists used in the lithographic fabrication of microelectronic circuits. As supervisor of the Radiation Sensitive Materials and Applications group, he was responsible for electron beam resist development in support of Bell Labs' commercial photomask-making tool technology. With the divestiture of AT&T in 1984, Dr. Bowden joined Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) as Division Manager of the Chemistry and Materials Science Research Division, and from 1990 - 1995 was Assistant Vice President of the Network Technologies Research Laboratory. After a brief period as Bellcore Executive-in-Residence at Stevens Institute of Technology, he joined Arch Chemicals (formerly Olin Corporation) Microelectronics Materials (AMM) Division in Rhode Island in 1997 as Director of R&D where he was responsible for materials research and product development for the Photoresist, Photosensitive Polyimides, Formulated Products, and Thin Films product lines. Dr Bowden returned to Stevens in August 2003 where he is currently Director of the MBA/EMBA programs in the Howe School of Technology Management. He is also President of EMP Consulting which provides consulting services on materials and processes to the electronics materials industry.

Dr. Bowden is a co-inventor of Bell Labs' 1977 IR-100 Award-winning electron resist technology, and in 1988 was selected as an Outstanding American Inventor and Finalist in the Inventor of the Year Competition sponsored by the Intellectual Property Owners Association for his work on resist materials for production of advanced integrated circuits. He was the co-recipient of the 1992 Carothers Award of the Delaware Section of the American Chemical Society for his contributions to the field of resist materials for microlithography, and was named as one of the 1992 New Jersey Inventors of the Year for his contributions to science and industry. He has authored or co-authored over 100 technical publications in the areas of solid-state polymerization, rubber-toughened polymers and resist materials for microelectronics. He holds 7 patents and has jointly edited 3 books. He became a PMSE Fellow in 2000.

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
2007	George R. Pilcher
2008	David J. Lohse
2009	Murrae J. Bowden

Past Distinguished Service Award Winners

2001 Service Award Winner

, Number of access since November 07, 2000