Personal Information
Birthdate:               May 5, 1945
Birthplace:             Dallas, Texas  

Education
B.A.                      Chemistry, Harvard, Cambridge, Mass., 1967
Ph.D.                    Chemistry, (J.P. Collman) Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, 1972                     Postdoctoral        Chemistry, (J. Lewis) Univ. Chemical Lab., Cambridge, England, 1972  

Professional Experience
1973-1979           Assistant Professor of Chemistry,  Princeton University                  
1979-1981           Associate Professor of Chemistry,  Colorado State University                  
1981-1997           Professor of Chemistry, Colorado State University                  
1997-Present       Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University  

Honors and Lectureships
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher -  Scholar, 1976                  
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1977-1981                  
Innovation Recognition Award, Union Carbide, 1985                 
Esso Distinguished Lecturer, U. of Toronto, March 1987          
Guggenheim Fellow, 1989                  
Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, 1993                  
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship for 1997                  
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, 1999                  
Lee Lecturer, University of Chicago, 2001                  
Frontiers Lectures, Texas A&M, 2002                  
ACS Organometallic Chemistry Award, 2005                  
Sierra Nevada Distinguished Chemist, Sierra Nevada ACS, 2006  

Major Research Interests
Mechanisms of organometallic and inorganic reactions; applications of organometallics to organic synthesis and catalysis; organometallic and bioinorganic proton transfer reactions; metal incorporation into, and activation of, metalloenzymes; use of metalloradicals to control free-radical polymerizations;  one-electron chemistry of Lewis acids

Other Activities
Associate Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1992-2003 

Textbook (co-author)
Principles and Applications of Organotransition Metal Chemistry  (1987)