Robert M. Waymouth (born 1960) is an American chemist. He is the Robert Eckles Swain Professor in Chemistry at

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Early life and education

He was born in 1960 in

Warner Robins, Georgia Warner Robins (typically ) is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia, located in Houston and Peach counties in the central part of the state. It is currently Georgia's eleventh-largest incorporated city, with an estimated population of 80,308 in th ...

. In 1982 he earned a B.S. in chemistry and a B.A. in mathematics from

Washington and Lee University , mottoeng = "Not Unmindful of the Future" , established = , type = Private liberal arts university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.092 billion (2021) , president = William C. Dudley , provost = Lena Hill , city = Lexingto ...

. He received a PhD in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1987 and did postdoctoral research at the Institut fur Polymere in

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, Switzerland.

Career

He became an assistant professor at Stanford in 1988 and a full professor in 1997. In 2000 he was named the Robert Eckles Swain Professor of Chemistry. He heads the Waymouth Group, which applies mechanistic principles to develop new concepts in catalysis. He has a particular interest in the disposal and recycling of plastics.

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1960 births Living people Stanford University faculty 21st-century American chemists California Institute of Technology alumni Washington and Lee University alumni People from Warner Robins, Georgia {{US-chemist-stub