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48204-SE Centennial Symposium of the Physical Division of the American Chemical Society, at the ACS National Meeting, August 17-21, 2008, Philadelphia, PA
This grant was used to support foreign speakers who were part of the Centennial Symposium of the Physical Division of the American Chemical Society, which was held Aug. 18 and 19, 2008 at the Fall ACS Meeting in Philadelphia. The title of the symposium was: “Centennial of the Physical Division: Celebrating the Past, Embracing the Future”. The purpose of this symposium was to highlight the science associated with Physical Chemistry by having major figures in the field present their research. This symposium was organized by George C. Schatz (Northwestern University) and Steven Sibener (University of Chicago). In addition to PRF support, we obtained support from the Physical Division, the American Chemical Society Meetings Division, the ACS Committee on Science, and the ACS Publications Division.
The complete list of speakers and affiliations is as follows (those with asterisk are Nobel Prize winners):
Gabor Somorjai (Berkeley)
Y. T. Lee (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)*
Steven Chu (Berkeley)*
Mildred Dresselhaus (MIT)
William H. Miller (Berkeley)
Donald Levy (University of Chicago)
Rudolph Marcus (Caltech)*
Mostafa El-Sayed (Georgia Tech)
Robin Hochstrasser (Pennsylvania)
Richard Zare (Stanford)
Giacinto Scoles (Trieste, Italy)
Ahmed Zewail (Caltech)*
Susan Linquist (MIT)
Carlos Bustamente (Berkeley)
Anne McDermott (Columbia)
Dudley Herschbach (Harvard)*
John Polanyi (University of Toronto)*
F. Sherwood Rowland (UC Irvine)*
W. Klemperer (Harvard)
There were four sessions. Average attendance in each session was 200. In addition, following the Monday program, there was a reception for the entire Physical Division (approximately 300 people attended) that was sponsored by the ACS Publications Division. Speakers who received PRF support were Y. T. Lee and G. Scoles.
