George H. Cady Endowed Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry: Hemamala Karunadasa

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu

Event Types: Academics,Lectures/Seminars 

Event sponsors: The George H. Cady Endowed Lectureship in Chemistry was established in memory of Prof. Cady by his family and many friends and colleagues in 1994. George H. Cady earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1930 under the direction of Joel H. Hildebrand. Cady held positions at the University of South Dakota, M.I.T., U.S. Rubber Company, and Pittsburgh Plate Glass before joining the UW as assistant professor in 1938. He worked on the Manhattan Project (1942-43), chaired the Department of Chemistry (1961-65), and became professor emeritus in 1972. Prof. Cady was a distinguished inorganic chemist who, among many honors, shared the first Prix Moisson, a prestigious prize named after the father of fluorine chemistry.

Link: https://chemistry.stanford.edu/people/hemamala-karunadasa  

George H. Cady Endowed Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry
“TBD”
Professor Hemamala Karunadasa – Department of Chemistry, Stanford University

Host: Douglas Reed