FACULTY AWARD: Car, Muir receive ACS national awards

By Staff on Sept. 17, 2015, 10 a.m.

Princeton University faculty members Roberto Car, the Ralph W. *31 Dornte Professor in Chemistry, and Tom Muir, the Van Zandt Williams Jr. Class of 1965 Professor of Chemistry and department chair, have received national awards from the American Chemical Society (ACS). Car received the ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry and Muir was honored with the Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry. National award recipients will be honored March 15, 2016, at the 251st ACS National Meeting in San Diego.

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