The Vilcek Foundation selected Markita del Carpio Landry (PhD, '12) to receive the Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, which is one of several foundation prizes celebrating foreign-born leaders in science, dance, and biotechnology.
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The Vallee Scholar program appointed six new scholars this year in its continuing mission to provide unrestricted funding for national and international early career researchers at a critical stage in their tenure-track careers.
The exhibit opened in the summer of 2020 and celebrates the invention of MRI by late UIUC chemistry faculty member Paul Lauterbur along with the foundational research that started on campus in the 1940s and 1950s, leading to this world-changing innovation.
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Nelson J. Leonard, one of the most important chemists of the twentieth century, was not only a master in the application of organic synthesis to the solution of important problems in chemistry, biochemistry, and plant physiology, but very highly regarded as a professional colleague. Leonard was born on September 1, 1916, grew up in Bronxville, New York, and attended Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, before moving to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. The beginning of World War II in September 1939 forced Leonard's return to the United States. Chemistry was not the only part...
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- Chemical Biology
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
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