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Purpose: Establishment and Support: Nature: Rules of Eligibility: To Submit a Nomination: Note: The 2017 Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition (FAME 2017) will be held May 4-6, 2017 at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club near Tampa, FL. The award recipient is expected to give an address at the meeting during a special symposium centered around the recipient's research interests. Nominators should confirm that the nominee can be present to participate in the meeting program and to receive the Award. |
Congratulations to Prof. Richard D. Adams
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC USA
Recipient of the 2016 Florida Award
Richard D. Adams received a B. S. degree from the Pennsylvania State University in 1969 and a Ph. D. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973 for research in inorganic chemistry performed under the direction of F. A. Cotton. He was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 1973-75 and Assistant and Associate Professor at Yale University, 1975-84. In 1984 he moved to the University of South Carolina as Professor of Chemistry. In 1995 he was appointed as the Arthur S. Williams Professor of Chemistry, and in 2006 he was appointed Carolina Distinguished Professor. He is the recipient of a number of national and regional awards including the 1999 ACS Award for Inorganic Chemistry and the 2010 ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry. He also received the Charles H. Herty Medal of the Georgia section of the ACS; the Charles H. Stone award of the Carolina-Piedmont section of the ACS, and a Pioneer award from the American Institute of Chemists. He has also received the Outstanding South Carolina Chemist award by the South Carolina Section of the ACS, 2001; the Southern Chemist Award from Memphis Section of the ACS, 2001, and the South Carolina Governor's Award for Excellence in Science, 2003. He received the Henry J. Albert Award of the International Precious Metals Institute in 2005. He received the 2011 Distinguished Scientist Award of the Southeastern Universities Research Association. He is the American Regional Editor for the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry and a coeditor of the Journal of Cluster Science. He coeditor and coauthor of two texts, ÒThe Chemistry of Metal Cluster Complexes, 1990Ó with Du Shriver and Herb Kaesz and ÒCatalysis by Di- and Polynuclear Metal Cluster Complexes, 1998Ó with F. A. Cotton. His research interests lie in the synthesis, structures and catalytic properties of metal carbonyl cluster complexes and bimetallic nanoparticles. He is the author/coauthor of over 570 original research publications. |
PREVIOUS FLORIDA AWARD RECIPIENTS
1952 |
Paul Gross (Duke University) |
1984 |
Leo Mandelkern (Florida State University) |