Stephen J. Lippard

James Stephen Lippard ( born October 12, 1940 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American chemist.

Life and work

Lippard earned his bachelor's degree from Haverford College in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1965 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Subsequently, he was just there postdoc before moving in 1966 to Columbia University where he was Professor, 1969-1972 Associate Professor and from 1972 to 1982 was professor of chemistry until 1969 Assistant. In the same position, he worked from 1983 to 1989 at MIT. Since 1989 he has been there Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry. Research trips led him in 1972 to the University of Gothenburg, 1979, the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, in 1988 at the Technical University of Munich and in 1998 at the University of California, San Diego.

Lippard works in the fields of inorganic chemistry, bioorganic chemistry and neurochemistry. He deals with the synthesis and determination of the chemical structure of transition metal complexes. He studied and improved chemotherapeutic agents with complex-bound platinum atoms, such as cisplatin. He studied hydroxylase with two metal ions and other metalloproteins, including methane monooxygenase.

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Memberships

American Chemical Society Priestley Medal Phi Beta Kappa Society Max Planck Society Integrated Authority File
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