Galen D. Stucky
Galen Dean Stucky ( born December 17, 1936 in McPherson, McPherson County, Kansas) is an American materials scientist.
Life and work
Stucky earned his Bachelor of Science in 1957 at McPherson College in 1962 and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at Iowa State University. In his thesis he worked on the border between crystallography and organometallic chemistry, and he examined the synthesis, the NMR spectrum, the growth of single crystals and the structure of the Grignard reagent. 1962-1963 he was a post - doctoral fellow with Clifford Shull at the Faculty of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). There he studied the Schwinger effect in the scattering of polarized electrons in pyroelectric crystals. After attending a three-month workshop with Per- Olov Löwdin at the Institute for Quantum Chemistry of the University of Florida, he became in 1964 assistant professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, where he was from 1972 to 1980 full professor. 1979 to 1981, he worked at Sandia National Laboratories and 1981-1985 in the research and development department of DuPont. He then moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is a professor at the Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and since 1993 at the Faculty of Materials Science. He is an honorary professor of Fudan University in Shanghai and visiting professor at Peking University.
Stucky designs and synthesizes a new porous materials for various applications, such as catalysts, separation process and appearance. He deals with molecular sieves, mesoporous solids, thermoelectricity, optoelectronics, and the use of biomineralization in vitro material synthesis. He has published more than 600 scientific papers.
Galen Stucky is married to Kaaren and has two sons.
Memberships
- American Chemical Society
- Materials Research Society
- SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineers
- 1994: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Awards
- 2000: Humboldt Research Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation )
- 2002: Chemistry of Materials Award (American Chemical Society )
- 2004: Award IMMA (International Mesostructured Materials Association )
- 2005: elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences