Tom Muir Joins
Princeton Chemistry

The Princeton University Department of Chemistry is delighted to announce that Professor Tom W. Muir will be joining our faculty effective January 2011.  Professor Muir will be the first named Van Zandt Williams Jr. Class of 1965 Professor of Chemistry.  Professor Muir’s areas of research focus primarily in organic chemistry, biochemistry, and cell biology

Prior to his appointment at Princeton, Professor Muir was a senior research associate at the Scripps Research Institute and a Professor at Rockefeller University.  He has received numerous awards including, the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists and the Vincent du Vigneaud Award in 2008, the Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award in 2005, the Leonidas-Zervas Award in 2002 and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund New Investigator Award in 1999. He was deemed an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 1999 and a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences in 1997. Muir is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

To learn more about Professor Muir and his research please visit his website.  

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Organic Chemistry
Biochemistry and Bioorganic
Bioinorganic and Biophysical
Inorganic and Materials
Experimental Physical Chemistry
Chemical Physics
Theory
Multi-disciplinary Opportunities

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Paul Chirik Joins
Princeton Chemistry

The Princeton University Department of Chemistry is delighted to announce that Professor Paul Chirik will be joining our faculty effective January 2011.  Professor Chirik’s areas of research focus primarily in organic and inorganic chemistry. 

Prior to his appointment at Princeton, Professor Chirik was the Peter J.W. Debye Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University.  He is the recipient of several notable awards including: the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society, the Bessel Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Camille Dreyfus-Teacher Scholar, the Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, the David and Lucile Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering, and the NSF CAREER Award. 

To learn more about Professor Chirik and his research please visit his website.  

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