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Edward I. Stiefel was born in Brooklyn, New York and educated in New York City Public Schools, at New York University (A.B.) and Columbia University (M.S./Ph.D in chemistry with Professor Harry B. Gray). Stiefel was a faculty member at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Senior Investigator at the Charles F. Kettering Research Laboratory, Senior Scientific Advisor at Corporate Strategic Research Exxon/Exxon Mobil. In 2001, he joined the faculty of Princeton University as Ralph W. Dornte Lecturer with the Rank of Professor. He is a member of the Department of Chemistry and the Princeton Environmental Institute. Stiefel's broad research interests range from inorganic synthesis, structure and reactivity to molecular genetics, environmental science, and evolution. His work on transition metal sulfur systems relates to enzyme models, heterogeneous catalyst precursors, separations, and lubricant additives. He studied molybdenum enzymes containing iron-molybdenum (nitrogenase) and molybdenum cofactors (xanthine oxidase et al.). Basic work on transition metal-sulfur chemistry extends to heterogeneous hydrotreating (hydrodesulfurization) catalysis, soluble multi-functional lubricant additives, and olefin separation systems. The designed synthesis of heteronuclear chalcogenide clusters is encompassed in these research efforts. Research on bacterioferritin (which Stiefel codiscovered) is aimed at understanding the ferritin family of proteins and their role in iron detoxification, acquisition, and storage and in materials synthesis. Recent work has probed the iron strorage systems in the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus. In 1989, following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Stiefel was a member of the task force that recommended and implemented the fertilization strategy, which led to the bioremediation of Prince William Sound. Stiefel has over 150 scientific publications, holds 30 U.S. patents, and has co-edited Molybdenum Enzymes, Cofactors, and Model Systems, Transition Metal Sulfur Chemistry: Biological and Industrial Significance and the new Encyclopedia of Catalysis. His review article on The Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry of Molybdenum is a citation classic having been cited in over 800 publications. Stiefel served on the NSF Panel on Opportunities in Biotechnology,
the Petroleum Research Fund Advisory Board, and Chaired the Bioinorganic
Subdivision of the American Chemical Society in 1991. He is currently
on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Progress in Inorganic Chemistry
and Inorganic Chemistry The Board of Reviewing Editors of Science, and
the Faculty of 1000. He organized the ACS Symposium on Molybdenum Enzymes,
Cofactors and Model Systems in 1992; Chaired the 1993 Gordon Research
Conference (GRC) on Metals in Biology; organized the symposium on Biomineralization
at the IVth International Conference on Advanced Materials in 1995;
the Pacifichem Symposium on Transition Metal Sulfur Chemistry in 1995;
was founding co-chair of the 1999 Inaugural GRC on Molybdenum and Tungsten
Enzymes; and founding co-chair of the 2002 Inaugural GRC on Environmental
Bioinorganic Chemistry (EBIC). In 1994, he was elected a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the recipient
of the American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry for the
year 2000. |