Kurt Mislow
Curriculum Vitae

	Work Address:
	Department of Chemistry
	Princeton University
	Princeton, NJ 08544
	Telephone: (609) 258-3941
	E-mail: kmislow@princeton.edu

Education:

• B.S., Tulane University, 1944
• Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1947

Academic Appointments:

• Instructor, New York University, 1947-1951
• Assistant Professor, New York University, 1951-1956
• Associate Professor, New York University, 1956-1960
• Professor, New York University, 1960-1964
• Hugh Stott Taylor Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University, 1964-1988
     Professor Emeritus, 1988-present
• Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, 1968-1974

Honors and Awards:

• John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1956 (E.T.H. Zürich), 1974 (Cambridge)
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1959-1963
• Solvay Medal, Free University of Brussels, 1972
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1972
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1974
• Doctor honoris causa, Free University of Brussels, 1974
• Overseas Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge, 1975
• James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, 1975
• Honorary D. Sc., Tulane University, 1975
• Doctor honoris causa, University of Uppsala, 1977
• Outstanding Alumnus of the College of Arts and Sciences, Tulane University, 1977
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1980
• Prelog Medal, E.T.H. Zürich, 1986
• William H. Nichols Medal of the American Chemical Society's New York Section, 1987
• Scientific Achievement Award Medal, CCNY Alumni Association, 1988
• Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar Award, California Institute of Technology, 1990, 1991, 1994
• Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute of Technology, 1990
• Chirality Gold Medal, 4th Intl. Symposium on Chiral Discrimination, Montreal, 1993
• Doctor honoris causa, University of Düsseldorf, 1994
• Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society, 1995
• Sesquicentennial Medal, Tulane University, 1997
• Foreign Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1999
• Doctor honoris causa, University of Zürich, 2004

Distinguished Lectureships and Visiting Professorships:

• Visiting Professor, Stanford University, 1962
• FMC Lecturer, Princeton University, 1963
• University Lecturer, University of London, 1965
• Frontiers in Chemistry Lecturer, Wayne State University, 1966 and 1974
• Frontiers in Chemistry Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University, 1967
• J. A. McRae Memorial Lecturer, Queen's University, Ontario, 1967
• Distinguished Lecturer, Howard University, 1969
• Distinguished Lecturer, Michigan State University, 1970
• H. A. Iddles Lecturer, University of New Hampshire, 1972
• Edward C. Lee Lecturer, University of Chicago, 1973
• Visiting Scholar, Western Michigan University, 1973
• Visiting Professor, University of Bologna, 1974
• Distinguished Lecturer, Peter A. Leermakers Symposium, Wesleyan University, 1974
• Lecturer of the Nobel Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1974
• Arthur A. Vernon Lecturer, Northeastern University, 1976
• PPG Industries Lecturer, Ohio University, 1977
• Distinguished Visiting Speaker, University of Calgary, 1978
• Jeremy Musher Memorial Lecturer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1978
• North Country Lecturer, University of New Hampshire, University of Vermont, Dartmouth College, Clarkson College of Technology, 1978
• Industry-Science Lecturer, Ramapo College, 1980
• Honor Lecturer, Arizona State University, 1981
• Ernest Ritchie Memorial Lecturer, University of Sydney, 1983
• R. C. Fuson Lecturer, University of Nevada, Reno, 1983
• Research Scholar Lecturer, Drew University, 1983
• J. F. McGregory Lecturer, Colgate University, 1984
• Reuben Benjamin Sandin Lecturer, Univeristy of Alberta, 1984
• Clifford B. Purves Lecturer, McGill University, 1985
• Richard and Doris Arnold Lecturer, Southern Illinois University, 1985
• Werner Bergmann Lecturer, Yale University, 1986
• Herbert C. Brown Lecturer, Purdue University, 1988
• Irvine Lecturer, University of St. Andrews, 1988
• Morris S. Kharasch Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, 1989
• Eyring Lecturer, Arizona State University, 1989
• Distinguished Scientist Lecturer, Bard College, 1991
• Syntex Distinguished Lecturer, Colorado State University, 1991
• J. W. T. Spinks Lecturer, University of Saskatchewan, 1992
• Bristol-Myers-Squibb Distinguished Lecturer, Syracuse University, 1992
• Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology, 1994

Memberships on Boards and Panels:

• Advisory Panel for Chemistry, National Science Foundation, 1963-1966
• Medicinal and Organic Chemistry Panel, National Institutes of Health, 1963-1966
• Board of Editors, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1965-1970
• Editorial Advisory Board, Topics in Stereochemistry, 1967-1994
• Editorial Advisory Board, Bulletin des Sociétés Chimiques Belges, 1975-1997
• Advisory Screening Committee in Chemistry, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright-Hayes Awards), 1975-1978
• Churchill Scholarship Screening Committee, 1976-1978
• Advisory Council for Chemistry, Polytechnic Institute of New York, 1977-1978
• External Review Committee, Graduate Programs of the School of Physical Sciences, University of California at Irvine, 1977
• Editorial Advisory Board, Accounts of Chemical Research, 1978-1984
• Editorial Advisory Board, Monatshefte für Chemie, 1978-1993
• Board of Visitors, Tulane University, 1980-1982
• External Oversight Committee for Chemistry, National Science Foundation, 1980
• Editorial Advisory Board, Chemical & Engineering News, 1983-1985
• Advisory Council for Chemistry, University of Nevada-Reno, 1989
• Editorial Board, Symmetry, 1989
• Editorial Board, Match, 1992-1994
• Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, 1992-present
• Advisory Panel, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Awards, 1992
• Council Delegate, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1992-1995
• Canvassing Committee for the American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 1998-present

Publications:

• "Introduction to Stereochemistry," W. A. Benjamin, 1965; German and Japanese translations have been published
• Over 340 articles in professional journals (see Publication List for 25 selected publications)

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