Walter Maxwell Gibson (1930-2009) was an American chemist. Gibson was born in

Enoch, Utah Enoch is a mostly rural and agricultural city in Iron County, Utah, United States, and is located approximately northeast of Cedar City in the northeast part of Cedar Valley. The population was 5,803 at the 2010 census, up from 3,467 at the ...

. He studied at

Southern Utah University Southern Utah University (SUU) is a public university in Cedar City, Utah. Founded in 1897 as a normal school, Southern Utah University now graduates over 1,800 students each year with baccalaureate and graduate degrees from its six colleges. ...

and the

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

. He received his Ph.D. from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

where he studied under

Glenn T. Seaborg Glenn Theodore Seaborg (; April 19, 1912February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work in ...

. He worked at Bell Labs where he did studies in ion channeling. He later was head of the physics department and dean of graduate studies at the

University at Albany The State University of New York at Albany, commonly referred to as the University at Albany, UAlbany or SUNY Albany, is a public research university with campuses in Albany, Rensselaer, and Guilderland, New York. Founded in 1844, it is one ...

. He would be designated the university's Distinguished Service Professor. Gibson was a Latter-day Saint. He was for a time bishop of the Albany Ward in New York.

named its college of Science and Engineering after Gibson. This was in part the result of a $4 million donation by his family in 2012.KSL article on the donation
/ref> Among other works Gibson wrote a book on the radiochemistry of lead.

Sources

Out obituary of GibsonUniversity at Albany death announcement
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