Salvatore Torquato is the recipient of the 2009 APS David Adler
Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics
Salvatore Torquato is the recipient of the 2009 APS David Adler
Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics. The Adler Award
will be presented at the APS March 2009 meeting in Pittsburgh at a
special ceremonial session.
The Award was established to recognize an outstanding contributor to the
field of materials physics, who is noted for the quality of his/her
research, review articles, and lecturing. Torquato was cited "For
his highly original and deep studies of n-point correlation functions
in heterogeneous materials and his outstanding communication of these
results through publication and public presentation."
Sorensen to receive national chemistry award
 Erik Sorensen, the Arthur Allan Patchett Professor in Organic Chemistry at Princeton, has been recognized by the American Chemical Society (ACS) for his research excellence. He has been selected to receive an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, which recognizes and encourages excellence in organic chemistry.
Sorensen specializes in the field of organic natural product synthesis, seeking to understand and appreciate the efficiency with which nature creates architecturally complex, biologically active natural products. Part of that effort involves seeking out chemical reactions that can transform commonplace chemicals into molecules that show promise as therapeutic agents.
The award cites Sorensen for "contributions as a scholar, educator and pioneer of the field of natural product synthesis and complex target synthesis." The award will be presented next March during the 237th ACS National Meeting in Salt Lake City.
The Cope Scholar Award consists of $5,000, a certificate, and a $40,000 unrestricted research grant to be assigned by the recipient to any university or nonprofit institution. Ten Cope Scholars are named annually -- four between the ages of 36 and 49, four age 50 or older, and two 35 and younger.
Abigail Gutmann Doyle
Joins Chemistry Faculty
 We are pleased to announce that Abigail Doyle has joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department as an Assistant Professor, effective July 1st. A recent graduate of Harvard University, Doyle was a National Science Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellow, working with Professor Eric Jacobsen, with whom she also studied as an undergraduate from 1998-2002. She also spent one year of graduate study at Stanford University as a National Defense Science and Engineering Pre-Doctoral Fellow with Professor Justin DuBois from 2002-03.
As a graduate student at Harvard, Doyle’s research concentrated on organic synthesis and catalysis, where she made seminal contributions in the development of two new catalysis concepts. These are (i) enantioselective catalytic alkylation of enolates, a transformation that for a long time has been viewed as a “Holy-Grail” in the field of catalysis, and (ii) development of enantioselective catalytic processes via the use of chiral counterions (a long standing problem for the field of chemical synthesis).
Emily Carter, the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year. She is among 72 new members and 18 foreign associates chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing accomplishments in original research.
She is also one of eleven Princeton faculty members have been named fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are among 212 leaders in scholarship, business, the arts and public affairs elected this year in recognition of contributions to their respective fields.
Membership in the academy is one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States. Those elected bring the total number of members to 2,041 and foreign associates to 397.
Groves earns Grand Prix in chemistry
 John Groves, the Hugh Stott Taylor Chair of Chemistry, is one of two people selected to receive the 2008 Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie. The ceremony will take place October 1 in Paris.
The award is given every other year "honoring an original work in chemistry of benefit to mankind, society or nature." Groves was cited for his work with cytochrome P450 enzymes and model metalloporphyrin catalysts.
He will share the prize with Jean-Pierre Maffrand, former head of drug discovery at the pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis, who discovered clopidogrel (sold worldwide as Plavix), the anti-platelet aggregation drug. The connection is that Plavix becomes activated in the body by the actions of cytochrome P450 enzymes for which Groves and his group determined the chemical mechanism. The research effort in Groves' group at Princeton has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and by the National Science Foundation.
Professor Groves will receive the Max Planck Institute’s “Frontiers in
Biological Chemistry” Award for 2009.
In 1995 the Kollegium installed a guest lectureship on "Frontiers in Biological Chemistry",
combined with an award. Each year an internationally renowned scientist in the field of
Bioinorganic Chemistry or Biological Photochemistry/Photophysics has been invited to report on
their work in the form of a lecture series spread over 3-4 days followed by an award lecture
addressing a more general audience.
A Princeton faculty member since 1985, Groves conducts research at the interface of organic, inorganic and biological chemistry. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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