Charles Dismukes
Professor of Chemistry
 
Department of Chemistry
Princeton University
Washington Road and William Street
Princeton, NJ 08544-1009
 
 dismukes@princeton.edu

G. Charles Dismukes is Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University and affiliated member of the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials. His research interests include metals in biological systems, and biological and chemical methods for splitting water. His published works describe the biology and chemistry of photosynthetic oxygen production by water oxidation, and bioinspired synthetic catalysts for renewable energy production. He received a BS in chemistry from the Lowell Technological Institute, a PhD in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in Madison with John Willard, and did postdoctoral work in the Calvin Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley with Kenneth Sauer and Melvin Klein. His honors include: G. D. Searle Scholars Award, Alfred P. Sloane Award, Squibb Institute Fellowship, DuPont Young Faculty Award, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, Monbusho Lecturer (Japan), National Research Council Fellowship, NRSA Senior International Fellow, CNRS Fellowship (France), the Lemberg Fellowship (Australia). He has been visiting professor at the Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble France (1997) , Kansai-Gaikun University, Nishinomiya, Japan (1997) , the Squibb Institute for Medical Research, Princeton (1991) and the Service de Biophysique, Dept. de Biologie, CEN-Saclay (1984) .