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March 10, 2010

ACS to host top scientist

AMERICUS — The world’s top Japanese scientist of 2008 is the featured speaker at an American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting at Georgia Southwestern Wednesday, March 17. In 2008, Keiji Morokuma, was the recipient of The Imperial Prize, Japan’s highest academic honor. The theme of Morokuma’s talk is the “Exciting World of Theoretical Studies of Chemical Reactions.”

The ACS meeting begins at 6 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m., and Morokuma’s presentation begins at 7 p.m. Each portion of the event will be held in the GSW faculty dining room.

Morokuma is a professor emeritus of theoretical chemistry at Emory University and a research leader at the Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry at Kyoto University in Japan. He earned a Bachelor of Science in 1957 and a Ph.D. in 1963 from Kyoto University. Morokuma was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University from 1964-1966 and at Harvard University from 1966-1967.

Georgia Southwestern’s chemistry department has substantial representation with the Southwest Georgia Section of the ACS. Associate Professor Nedialka Iordanova is the section chairman, and Associate Professor Elizabeth Gurnack is the section secretary. Iordanova and Gurnack are organizing this event.

Tickets are $11 per person and $5.50 for GSW students. Call 931-2328 for more information.

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by From Staff Reports , , Wed Mar 10, 2010, 08:24 PM EST
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