2013 Habermann Lecture - Friday, April 26, 2013, 4:00 p.m. TWC 121
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Habermann Lecturer Prof. Allen J. Bard, University of Texas at Austin, will present "Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM) - In Situ Interrogation of Surfaces" on Friday, April 26, 2013.
Prof. Bard joined the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) in 1958, and has spent his whole career there. He has been the Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry at UT since 1985.
He was a Baker lecturer at Cornell University in the spring of 1987 and the Robert Burns Woodward visiting professor at Harvard University in 1988. He has worked as mentor and collaborator with 75 Ph.D. students, 17 M.S. students and 150 postdoctoral associates and numerous visitng scientists.
He has published over 800 peer-reviewed research papers and 75 book chapters and other publications, and has received over 23 patents.
He has authored three books, Chemical Equilibrium (1966), Electrochemical Methods-Fundamentals and Applications (1980, 2nd Ed., 2001, with L.R. Faulkner), and Integrated Chemical Systems: A Chemical Approach to Nanotechnology (1994). He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Chemical Society 1982-2001.
His research interests involve the application of electrochemical methods to the study of chemical problems and include investigations in scanning electrochemical microscopy, electrogenerated chemiluminescence and photoelectrochemistry.
History
Eugene Habermann was born and raised in the city of Milwaukee, not far from Marquette University. He served in the Army during World War II and then attended Marquette University under the GI bill, receiving a BS degree in business administration in 1958, while working full-time as a time-study analyst at Briggs & Stratton. Mr. Habermann never married and lived with other members of his family. He was described as a "jovial, pleasant man, with a good sense of humor." A relative, noting his fugality, stated, "He was a sharp investor. It wasn't a hobby for him."
Mr. Haberman admired chemists who were well-trained and knew their art and thus established the Habermann-Pfletschinger Chair in Chemistry at Marquette University in honor of his parents.
The Habermann Lecture series is to perpetuate the memory of Eugene Habermann and to recognize his generosity and support of Marquette University and our chemistry department.
Previous Habermann Lecturers
- 2012: Professor Brian M. Hoffman-Northwestern University
- 2011: Professor Stephen F. Martin-University of Texas-Austin
- 2010: Professor Daniel Neumark-University of California-Berkeley
- 2009: Professor Lawrence Que, Jr.-University of Minnesota
- 2007: Professor Julius Rebek, Jr.-Scripps Research Institute
- 2006: Professor Ed Yeung-Iowa State University
- 2005: Professor Swiatoslaw Trofimenko-University of Delaware
- 2004: Professor Arieh Warshel-University of Southern California
- 2003: Professor James Tour-Rice University
- 2002: Professor Richard Zare-Stanford University
- 2001: Profesor Stephen L. Buchwald-Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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