SonBinh T. Nguyen is the McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence and the Dow Chemical Company Research
Professor of
Chemistry
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at
Northwestern University. He is also the former Director of the Integrated Sciences Program.
Nguyen received his B.S. in Chemistry from the Pennsylvania State University in 1990, where he worked with Gregory L. Geoffroy.
He received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the
California Institute of Technology, where he was supervised by
Robert Grubbs and
Nathan Lewis.
From 1995 to 1996, he worked under
K. Barry Sharpless
Karl Barry Sharpless (born April 28, 1941) is an American chemist and a two-time Nobel laureate in Chemistry known for his work on stereoselective reactions and click chemistry.
Sharpless was awarded half of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry " ...
at the
Scripps Research Institute as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow.
In 1997, he received a
Beckman Young Investigators Award.
References
Scripps Research
Living people
21st-century American chemists
Academics of Vietnamese descent
Year of birth missing (living people)
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