Joseph B. Lambert (born 1940) is an educator, organic chemist, archaeological chemist, and

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spectroscopist. He grew up in the

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, area and graduated from

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in 1958. He was educated at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

(1962, summa cum laude), where he worked for

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, and at

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(1965), where he worked for

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. In 1965, he joined the faculty of

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

in Evanston,

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, where he rose through the ranks and in 1991 became Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry. In 2010, he retired after 45 years at Northwestern and moved to Trinity University in San Antonio to assume his current position as

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Northwestern University (1965-2010)

In 1973, Lambert was a Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim FellowJohn Simon Guggeneheim Memorial Foundation
at the Research Laboratory of the

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, and, in 1976, he received the National Fresenius Award. In 1989, he received the Fryxell Award from the

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in recognition of his chemical contributions to archaeology. He was the 1998 recipient of the Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry of the

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(ACS) and in 2012 was named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. He received the Carol and Harry Mosher Award of the Santa Clara Valley Section of the ACS in 2003 and the Sidney M. Edelstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry by the ACS in 2004. He has been the author of fifteen books and over 400 publications in scientific journals. His book ''Traces of the Past'' was a selection of the Natural Science Book Club. He was the founder of the ''

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'' and served as editor-in-chief for 23 years. He is past chairman of the ACS Subdivision of Archaeological Chemistry, past president of the Society of Archaeological Sciences, past chairman of his department, and past chairman of the ACS Division of the History of Chemistry. A strong advocate of the combination of research and teaching, he has won a number of teaching awards, including the James Flack Norris Award of the American Chemical Society (1987), the E. Leroy Hall Award of the

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of Northwestern University (1991), the National Catalyst Award of the

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(1993), and the Northwestern University Alumni Award (1994). From 1999 to 2002 he was Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern. His major scientific contributions include the creation of the first silyl cation (the silicon analogue of the carbocation), elucidation of the mechanism of ''beta''-silyl stabilization of carbocations, discovery of inductive enhancement of solvolytic participation, creation of new methods of conformational analysis by

spectroscopy (the R value), understanding the conformations of cyclic molecules containing heteroatoms, and development of chemical methods to examine archaeological materials.

Trinity University (2010-present)

Since retiring from Northwestern in 2010, Lambert has continued his research at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

Books

''Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: An Introduction to Principles, Applications, and Experimental Methods, second edition'', Wiley, 2019
''A Chemical Life'', De Rigueur Press, 2014
''Organic Structural Spectroscopy'', second edition, Pearson, 2011
''Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: An Introduction to Principles, Applications, and Experimental Methods'', Prentice Hall, 2004
''Organic Structural Spectroscopy'', Prentice Hall, 1998
''Traces of the Past: Unraveling the Secrets of Archaeology through Chemistry', Addison-Wesley/Perseus, 1997
''Prehistoric Human Bone: Archaeology at the Molecular Level'', Springer-Verlag, 1993
''Acyclic Organonitrogen Stereodynamics'', VCH, 1992
''Cyclic Organonitrogen Stereodynamics'', VCH, 1992
''Recent Progress in Organic NMR Spectroscopy'', UNICAMP Press (Brazil) and Norell Press (USA), 1987
''Introduction to Organic Spectroscopy'', Macmillan, 1987
''Archaeological Chemistry III'', American Chemical Society, 1984
''The Multinuclear Approach to NMR Spectroscopy'', D. Reidel, 1983
''Physical Organic Chemistry through Solved Problems'', Holden Day, 1978
''Organic Structural Analysis'', Macmillan, 1976

Personal

Lambert has been married since 1967 to Mary Wakefield Pulliam Lambert, who received a PhD from

in 1970 and was a

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from 1981 to 2009 at the same institution. He has 3 children and currently resides in San Antonio, Texas.

References

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