Chemistry

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List of Professors

Name	Years at Michigan	Position
Adon A. Gordus	1956 - 2001	Professor of Chemistry
Albert Becker Peck	1916 - 1917	Professor of Mineralogy
Albert Benjamin Prescott	1893 - 1905	Professor of Organic Chemistry Director of the Chemical Laboratory Dean of the School of Pharmacy
Alfred A. Schilt	1956 - 1957	Instructor in Chemistry
Alfred DuBois	1956	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Alfred L. Ferguson	1911 - 1954	Professor of Chemistry
Alfred P. Sattelberger	1977 - 1984	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Andrew G DeRocco	1954 - 1963	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Arthur J Ashe III	1966 - 2008	Professor of Chemistry, Macromolecular Science and Engineering Chair, Department of Chemistry 1983-1986
Barry Dunietz	2004 - 2011	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Billy J. Evans	1969 - 2003	Professor of Chemistry
Byron Avery Soule	1920 - 1956	Associate Professor of Chemistry
Carol Korzeniewski	1988 - 1994	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Charles F. Yocum	1973 - 2010	Professor of Chemistry Professor of Biological Sciences Alfred S. Sussman Professor of Biology
Charles G. Overberger	1967 - 1989	Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 1966-1972 Vice President for Research
Charles L. Rulfs	1949 - 1984	Professor of Chemistry
Chester Baker Slawson	1925 - 1964	Professor of Chemistry & Mineralogy
Chester Seitz Schoepfle	1912 - 1957	Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 1936-1948
Christer E. Nordman	1955 - 1995	Professor of Chemistry
Christine E. Evans	1993 - 2000	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Chui Fan Liu	1960 - 1965	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Clifford Cyrille Meloche	1915 - 1956	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Coleen R. Pugh	1992 - 1998	Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Daniel T. Longone	1960 - 1987	Professor of Chemistry
David L. Dull	1970	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
David M. Lichty	1891 - 1932	Associate Professor of Chemistry
David S. Weiss	1972 - 1978	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Dean William Cooke	1959 - 1966	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Dimitri N. Coucouvanis	1982 - 2010	Professor of Chemistry Lawrence S. Bartell Collegiate Professor of Chemistry
Donald H. Stedman	1977 - 1983	Associate Professor of Chemistry, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
Donald J. Hupe	1974 - 1980	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Douglass Houghton	1839 - 1845	Professor of Mineralogy, Geology, Chemistry & Pharmacy
Edgar F. Westrum	1946 - 1989	Professor of Chemistry
Edward DeMille Campbell	1890 - 1925	Professor of Chemistry Director of the Chemical Laboratory Professor of Chemical Engineering
Edwin Vedejs	1999 - 2011	Professor of Chemistry Moses Gomberg Collegiate Professor of Chemistry
Floyd E. Bartell	1910 - 1953	Professor of Chemistry
Frederick Franklin Blicke	1921 - 1961	Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Frederick George Novy	1886 - 1935	Professor of Bacteriology Director of Hygienic Laboratory Dean of the Medical School
Frederick Levy Dunlap	1901 - 1907	Assistant Professor of General Chemistry
George Augustus Hulett	1899 - 1905	Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry
George David Joseph Phillies	1978 - 1985	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
George Oswin Higley	1891 - 1905	Instructor in Chemistry
Hans H. Brintzinger	1965 - 1973	Professor of Chemistry
Harry B. Mark	1963 - 1970	Associate Professor of Chemistry
Harry Newton Cole	1899 - 1935	Instructor in Chemistry
Henry A. Catherino	1964 - 1968	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Henry C. Griffin	1964 - 2005	Professor of Chemistry
Henry Sylvester Cheever	1876	Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica
Herbert O. Calvery	1927	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Hobart H. Willard	1911 - 1951	Professor of Chemistry
Howard Bishop Lewis	1922 - 1954	Professor of Biological Chemistry John Jacob Abel University Professor of Biological Chemistry Chairman of the Department of Biological Chemistry
Ioan Andricioaei	2003 - 2007	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
James E. Mark	1967 - 1977	Professor of Chemistry
James F. Verdieck	1964 - 1970	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
James H. Hodges	1919 - 1957	Associate Professor of Chemistry
James K. Coward	1987 - 2008	Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Jeffrey S. Moore	1990 - 1993	Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Jerry H. Current	1964 - 1970	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
John J. Eisch	1959 - 1963	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
John L. Gland	1988 - 2009	Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Chemical Engineering
John Lawrence Oncley	1962 - 1980	Professor of Chemistry
John M. Haschke	1970 - 1976	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
John R. Wiseman	1966 - 2001	Professor of Chemistry
John Reginald Bates	1932 - 1937	Associate Professor of Chemistry
John T. Groves III	1969 - 1985	Professor of Chemistry
John William Langley	1875 - 1889	Professor of Physics, Electrical Engineering, Chemistry and Metallurgy
Joseph O. Halford	1926 - 1968	Professor of Chemistry
Joseph P. Marino	1969 - 2003	Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 1997-2002
Joseph Stanley Laird	1912 - 1919	Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Julien Gendell	1963 - 1969	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Jurgens H. Schnitker	1989 - 1995	Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy
Karl Wilhelm Zimmerschied	1906 - 1912	Instructor in Metallurgy, Chemistry & Quantitative Analysis
Kasimir Fajans	1936 - 1957	Professor of Chemistry
Kate S. Carroll	2006 - 2010	Assistant Professor of Chemistry Research Assistant Professor Life Sciences Institute
Katrin Karbstein	2006 - 2010	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Larry W. Beck	1998 - 2005	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Lawrence L. Lohr	1968 - 2002	Professor of Chemistry
Lawrence O. Brockway	1938 - 1976	Professor of Chemistry
Lawrence S. Bartell	1965 - 1993	Philip J. Elving Professor of Chemistry
Lee Holt Cone	1906 - 1917	Associate Professor of Chemistry
Lee Owen Case	1926 - 1966	Professor of Chemistry
Leigh Charles Anderson	1926 - 1969	Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 1948-1972
Leroy Townsend	1979 - 2000	Albert B. Prescott Professor of Medicinal Chemistry Professor of Chemistry
M. David Curtis	1967 - 2005	Professor of Chemistry, Macromolecular Science and Engineering Chair, Department of Chemistry 1986-1991
Marc J. A. Johnson	2001 - 2009	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Mark M. Green	1967 - 1974	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Michael McCulloch Martin	1959 - 1999	Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Professor of Biology Chair of the Division of Biological Sciences
Milton Tamres	1953 - 1987	Professor of Chemistry
Moses Gomberg	1891 - 1936	Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 1927-1936
Odile G. Eisenstein	1982 - 1984	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Omar M. Yaghi	1999 - 2005	Professor of Chemistry Robert W. Parry Collegiate Professor of Chemistry
Otis C. Johnson	1875 - 1911	Professor of Qualitative Analysis
Paul Caspar Freer	1889 - 1904	Professor of Chemistry First Director of the Chemical Laboratory 1891
Paul G. Rasmussen	1964 - 2006	Professor of Chemistry, Macromolecular Science and Engineering Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Paul Knochel	1987 - 1993	Professor of Chemistry
Perry Fox Trowbridge	1901	Instructor in Chemistry
Peter A. S. Smith	1945 - 1990	Professor of Chemistry
Peter L. Toogood	1992 - 1998	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Peter Wuts	1979 - 1984	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Philip B. Empedocles	1970 - 1975	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Philip Elving	1952 - 1983	Professor of Chemistry Hobart Willard Professor of Chemistry
Philip Francis Weatherill	1921 - 1960	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Philip W. LeQuesne	1967 - 1973	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Preston Benjamin Rose	1868 - 1881	Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Physiological Chemistry and Toxicology
R. Martin Stiles	1955 - 1979	Professor of Chemistry
Ralph W. Rudolph	1969 - 1981	Professor of Chemistry
Raymond N. Keller	1942 - 1951	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Richard A. Goldstein	1993 - 2003	Associate Professor of Chemistry
Richard Bernstein	1953 - 1963	Professor of Chemistry
Richard Chase Tolman	1910 - 1911	Instructor in Chemistry
Richard D. Sacks	1969 - 2006	Professor of Chemistry, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
Richard F. Copeland Jr.	1969 - 1970	Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Richard G. Lawton	1962 - 1999	Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Professor of Chemistry
Richard S Berry	1957 - 1960	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Robert Cooley Elderfield	1951 - 1970	Professor of Chemistry
Robert Cooper Taylor	1949 - 1987	Professor of Chemistry
Robert E. Ireland	1956 - 1965	Professor of Chemistry
Robert J. Carney	1907 - 1953	Professor of Chemistry Director of Chemistry Store
Robert L. Kuczkowski	1966 - 2002	Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 1991-1997
Robert R. Sharp	1969 - 2008	Professor of Chemistry
Robert W. Parry	1946 - 1969	Professor of Chemistry
Roger H. Gillette	1937 - 1944	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Roy Kenneth McAlpine	1910 - 1953	Associate Professor of Chemistry
Russell D. Larsen	1977 - 1983	Associate Professor of Chemistry
S.M. Blinder	1963 - 1995	Professor of Chemistry
Samuel Colville Lind	1905 - 1915	Assistant Professor of General and Physical Chemistry
Samuel Lawrence Bigelow	1898 - 1937	Professor of Chemistry
Seyhan N. Ege	1965 - 2001	Professor of Chemistry Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Silas Hamilton Douglas	1844 - 1877	Professor of Chemistry Professor of Materia Medical Director of Chemical Laboratory
Stephen Lee	1988 - 1998	Professor of Chemistry
Theodore H. Berlin	1943	Research Associate of Chemistry Research Physicist Engineering Research Institute Navy Theoretical Physicist
Thomas M. Dunn	1963 - 1998	Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 1972-1983
Victor C. Vaughan	1877 - 1921	Professor of Hygiene and Physiological Chemistry Dean of Medical Faculty
Werner Emmanuel Bachmann	1925 - 1951	Professor of Chemistry
William G. Smeaton	1902 - 1942	Professor of Chemistry Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
William Hardy Pearson	1984 - 2003	Professor of Chemistry
William Jay Hale	1903 - 1915	Associate Professor of Chemistry
William R. Roush	1997 - 2004	Professor of Chemistry Warner-Lambert/Park Davis Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 2002-2004
William W Meinke	1950 - 1963	Professor of Chemistry
Wyman Risting Vaughan	1947 - 1966	Professor of Chemistry

Chemistry

List of Professors

Adon A. Gordus

Albert Becker Peck

Albert Benjamin Prescott

Alfred A. Schilt

Alfred DuBois

Alfred L. Ferguson

Alfred P. Sattelberger

Andrew G DeRocco

Arthur J Ashe III

Barry Dunietz

Billy J. Evans

Byron Avery Soule

Carol Korzeniewski

Charles F. Yocum

Charles G. Overberger

Charles L. Rulfs

Chester Baker Slawson

Chester Seitz Schoepfle

Christer E. Nordman

Christine E. Evans

Chui Fan Liu

Clifford Cyrille Meloche

Coleen R. Pugh

Daniel T. Longone

David L. Dull

David M. Lichty

David S. Weiss

Dean William Cooke

Dimitri N. Coucouvanis

Donald H. Stedman

Donald J. Hupe

Douglass Houghton

Edgar F. Westrum

Edward DeMille Campbell

Edwin Vedejs

Floyd E. Bartell

Frederick Franklin Blicke

Frederick George Novy

Frederick Levy Dunlap

George Augustus Hulett

George David Joseph Phillies

George Oswin Higley

Hans H. Brintzinger

Harry B. Mark

Harry Newton Cole

Henry A. Catherino

Henry C. Griffin

Henry Sylvester Cheever

Herbert O. Calvery

Hobart H. Willard

Howard Bishop Lewis

Ioan Andricioaei

James E. Mark

James F. Verdieck

James H. Hodges

James K. Coward

Jeffrey S. Moore

Jerry H. Current

John J. Eisch

John L. Gland

John Lawrence Oncley

John M. Haschke

John R. Wiseman

John Reginald Bates

John T. Groves III

John William Langley

Joseph O. Halford

Joseph P. Marino

Joseph Stanley Laird

Julien Gendell

Jurgens H. Schnitker

Karl Wilhelm Zimmerschied

Kasimir Fajans

Kate S. Carroll

Katrin Karbstein

Larry W. Beck

Lawrence L. Lohr

Lawrence O. Brockway