The 2007-8 Harold A. Iddles Lecture Series
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Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts |
| Wednesday, April 23, 2008 3:10 p.m. Iddles L101 Air Pollution and Climate Change from the Lower 48 to the Arctic |
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| Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:10 a.m. Iddles L103 Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Lower Atmosphere from Particles to Parking Lots |
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Dr. Finlayson-Pitts completed her B.Sc. (Hons.) at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, in 1970 and Ph.D. (1973) in chemistry at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) where she also did postdoctoral work for one year. She was on the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at California State University, Fullerton from 1974-1994. Dr. Finlayson-Pitts joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, in 1994 where she is currently Professor of Chemistry. She was elected to both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and was awarded the 2004 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science & Technology. Her current research interests include heterogeneous reactions involving sea salt particles and their components, oxides of nitrogen, and organics on surfaces representative of those found in the lower atmosphere. Dr. Finlayson-Pitts is author or coauthor of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, as well as two books, Atmospheric Chemistry: Fundamentals and Experimental Techniques (Wiley, 1986, 1098 pp.), and Chemistry of the Upper and Lower Atmosphere (Academic, 2000, 946 pp.), both of which she coauthored with James N. Pitts Jr.
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Fred Wudl
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| Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1 p.m. MUB Theatre 2 "Recent Results in Conjugated Polymer Research for Organic Electronics" The greatest challenges in conjugated polymer research for organic electronics are in the area of applications to light-emitting devices and photovoltaics. There are a number of variables, ranging from synthesis to processing that need to be "tuned" in order to improve the performance of organic devices. In this lecture I will emphasize the work on n-dopable polymers as well as extending the absorption range to the near infrared region of the solar spectrum. |
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| 4 p.m. MUB Theatre 1 "Forcing Organic Solids to Perform in Electronics" The relatively new field of organic electronics is diffeent from traditional semiconductor electronics. Organic semiconductors came to fuition after the discovery of organic metals and semiconductors. This lecture will cover organic electronics from its beginnings to the latest developments iin applications to semiconductor devices such as white light production and solar cells. |
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Fred Wudl is a Professor of Chemistry and Materials and Co-Director of the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received B.S. (1964) and Ph.D. (1967) degrees from UCLA where his dissertation work was done with Professor Donald J. Cram. After postdoctoral research with R.B. Woodward at Harvard, he joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo. He then moved, first in 1972 to AT&T Bell Laboratories, and subsequently to the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1982, then onto UCLA from 1997 to 2006. He is most widely known for his work on organic conductors and superconductors. He discovered the electronic conductivty of the precursor to the first organic metal and superconductor. In the recent past he has been interested in electronically conducting polymers, where he discovered the first transparent organic conductor and the first self-doped polymers. Currently he is interested in the optical and electrooptical properties of processable conjugated polymers as well as in the organic chemistry of fullerenes and the design and preparation of self-mending and self-healing materials. Wudl is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, Wheland Medal, American Chemical Society Award for Chemistry of Materials, Tolman Medal of the SCALACS, and Arthur D. Little Award. He has been a Peter A. Leermakers Lecturer, and is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Harold A. Iddles Lecture Series was established as an annual event of the Chemistry Department upon Professor Iddles' retirement in 1961. Chemistry alumni and friends established this fund to support a lecture series which includes one technical presentation and a second presentation of broader interest for the general public. This alumni gesture has served as a continuing recognition of Professor Iddles' service to the department as its head from 1929 to 1961, and of the educational and research programs he fostered. Dr. Iddles, educated at Michigan State College (B.S., 1918) and State University of Iowa (M.S., 1922), received the Ph.D. in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1925 and then studied in Austria, Germany and England. During his long tenure at New Hampshire, he was widely recognized as an outstanding teacher and tireless advisor to students. For over thirty years some of the most distinguished chemists in the world have visited the University of New Hampshire as Iddles Lecturers.
Previous Iddles Lecturers
| Arthur C. Cope | Paul G. Gassman | F. Albert Cotton |
| Louis F. Feiser | Orville L. Chapman | John E. McMurry |
| Frederick E. Brinckman | Royce W. Murray | John T. Yates, Jr |
| James P. Collman | Michael J. Welch | Paul S. Anderson |
| William N. Lipscomb, Jr. | Dietmar Seyferth | Richard P. Wayne |
| Kenneth B. Wiberg | Clayton H. Heathcock | Chris Enke |
| George C. Pimentel | Paul C. Lauterbur | Andrew D. Hamilton |
| Kurt Mislow | Allen J. Bard | Jacqueline V. Barton |
| R. Bruce Merrifield | Mark S. Wrighton | David Parker |
| Sidney H. Fox | Anders Kjaer | F. Sherwood Rowland |
| Francis O. Schmitt | Rudolph A. Marcus | Peter Wipf |
| Philip Aisen | Vincent du Vigneaud | R. Mark Wightman |
| Jerrold Meinwald | Ronald C.D. Breslow | Thomas V. O'Halloran |
| George S. Hammond | Daryle H. Busch | John LaMattina |
| Garry A. Rechnitz | Manfred Eigen | Pamela Björkman |
| Walter M. Stockmayer | John D. Roberts | Mary J. Wirth |
| R.M. Acheson | Gabor A. Somorjai | |
| Louis P. Hammett | Ira W. Levin |
Lectures are open to the public. For more information, contact the Department of Chemistry
at 603-862-1550.