Chemistry

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List of Professors

Name	Years at Michigan	Position
Douglass Houghton	1839 - 1845	Professor of Mineralogy, Geology, Chemistry & Pharmacy
Silas Hamilton Douglas	1844 - 1877	Professor of Chemistry Professor of Materia Medical Director of Chemical Laboratory
Alfred DuBois	1856	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Preston Benjamin Rose	1868 - 1881	Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Physiological Chemistry and Toxicology
John William Langley	1875 - 1889	Professor of Physics, Electrical Engineering, Chemistry and Metallurgy
Otis C. Johnson	1875 - 1911	Professor of Qualitative Analysis
Henry Sylvester Cheever	1876	Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica
Victor C. Vaughan	1877 - 1921	Professor of Hygiene and Physiological Chemistry Dean of Medical Faculty
Frederick George Novy	1886 - 1935	Professor of Bacteriology Director of Hygienic Laboratory Dean of the Medical School
Paul Caspar Freer	1889 - 1904	Professor of Chemistry First Director of the Chemical Laboratory 1891
Edward DeMille Campbell	1890 - 1925	Professor of Chemistry Director of the Chemical Laboratory Professor of Chemical Engineering
Moses Gomberg	1891 - 1936	Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 1927-1936
David M. Lichty	1891 - 1932	Associate Professor of Chemistry
George Oswin Higley	1891 - 1905	Instructor in Chemistry
Albert Benjamin Prescott	1893 - 1905	Professor of Organic Chemistry Director of the Chemical Laboratory Dean of Pharmacy 1876-1905
Perry Fox Trowbridge	1894 - 1898	Instructor in Chemistry
Samuel Lawrence Bigelow	1898 - 1937	Professor of Chemistry
George Augustus Hulett	1899 - 1905	Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry
Harry Newton Cole	1899 - 1935	Instructor in Chemistry
Frederick Levy Dunlap	1901 - 1907	Assistant Professor of General Chemistry
William G. Smeaton	1902 - 1942	Professor of Chemistry Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
William Jay Hale	1903 - 1915	Associate Professor of Chemistry
Samuel Colville Lind	1905 - 1915	Assistant Professor of General and Physical Chemistry
Lee Holt Cone	1906 - 1917	Associate Professor of Chemistry
Karl Wilhelm Zimmerschied	1906 - 1912	Instructor in Metallurgy, Chemistry & Quantitative Analysis
Robert J. Carney	1907 - 1953	Professor of Chemistry Director of Chemistry Store
Floyd E. Bartell	1910 - 1953	Professor of Chemistry
Roy Kenneth McAlpine	1910 - 1953	Associate Professor of Chemistry
Richard Chase Tolman	1910 - 1911	Instructor in Chemistry
Alfred L. Ferguson	1911 - 1954	Professor of Chemistry
Hobart H. Willard	1911 - 1951	Professor of Chemistry
Chester Seitz Schoepfle	1912 - 1957	Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 1936-1948
Joseph Stanley Laird	1912 - 1919	Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Clifford Cyrille Meloche	1915 - 1956	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Albert Becker Peck	1916 - 1917	Professor of Mineralogy
James H. Hodges	1919 - 1957	Associate Professor of Chemistry
Byron Avery Soule	1920 - 1956	Associate Professor of Chemistry
Philip Francis Weatherill	1921 - 1960	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Frederick Franklin Blicke	1921 - 1961	Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Howard Bishop Lewis	1922 - 1954	Professor of Biological Chemistry John Jacob Abel University Professor of Biological Chemistry Chairman of the Department of Biological Chemistry
Werner Emmanuel Bachmann	1925 - 1951	Professor of Chemistry
Chester Baker Slawson	1925 - 1964	Professor of Chemistry & Mineralogy
Lee Owen Case	1926 - 1966	Professor of Chemistry
Joseph O. Halford	1926 - 1968	Professor of Chemistry
Leigh Charles Anderson	1926 - 1969	Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 1948-1972
Herbert O. Calvery	1927	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
John Reginald Bates	1932 - 1937	Associate Professor of Chemistry
Kasimir Fajans	1936 - 1957	Professor of Chemistry
Roger H. Gillette	1937 - 1944	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Lawrence O. Brockway	1938 - 1976	Professor of Chemistry
Raymond N. Keller	1942 - 1951	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Theodore H. Berlin	1943 - 1946	Research Associate of Chemistry Research Physicist Engineering Research Institute Navy Theoretical Physicist
Peter A. S. Smith	1945 - 1990	Professor of Chemistry
Robert W. Parry	1946 - 1969	Professor of Chemistry
Edgar F. Westrum	1946 - 1989	Professor of Chemistry
Wyman Risting Vaughan	1947 - 1966	Professor of Chemistry
Charles L. Rulfs	1949 - 1984	Professor of Chemistry
Robert Cooper Taylor	1949 - 1987	Professor of Chemistry
William W Meinke	1950 - 1963	Professor of Chemistry
Robert Cooley Elderfield	1951 - 1970	Professor of Chemistry
Philip Elving	1952 - 1983	Professor of Chemistry Hobart Willard Professor of Chemistry
Milton Tamres	1953 - 1987	Professor of Chemistry
Richard Bernstein	1953 - 1963	Professor of Chemistry
Andrew G DeRocco	1954 - 1963	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Christer E. Nordman	1955 - 1995	Professor of Chemistry
R. Martin Stiles	1955 - 1979	Professor of Chemistry
Adon A. Gordus	1956 - 2001	Professor of Chemistry
Robert E. Ireland	1956 - 1965	Professor of Chemistry
Alfred A. Schilt	1956 - 1957	Instructor in Chemistry
Richard Stephen Berry	1957 - 1960	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
John J. Eisch	1959 - 1963	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Michael McCulloch Martin	1959 - 1999	Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Professor of Biology Chair of the Division of Biological Sciences
Dean William Cooke	1959 - 1966	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Chui Fan Liu	1960 - 1965	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Daniel T. Longone	1960 - 1987	Professor of Chemistry
Richard G. Lawton	1962 - 1999	Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Professor of Chemistry
John Lawrence Oncley	1962 - 1980	Professor of Chemistry
S.M. Blinder	1963 - 1995	Professor of Chemistry
Thomas M. Dunn	1963 - 1998	Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 1972-1983
Julien Gendell	1963 - 1969	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Harry B. Mark	1963 - 1970	Associate Professor of Chemistry
Henry A. Catherino	1964 - 1968	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Jerry H. Current	1964 - 1970	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Henry C. Griffin	1964 - 2005	Professor of Chemistry
Paul G. Rasmussen	1964 - 2006	Professor of Chemistry, Macromolecular Science and Engineering Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
James F. Verdieck	1964 - 1970	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Lawrence S. Bartell	1965 - 1993	Philip J. Elving Professor of Chemistry
Hans H. Brintzinger	1965 - 1973	Professor of Chemistry
Seyhan N. Ege	1965 - 2001	Professor of Chemistry Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Robert L. Kuczkowski	1966 - 2002	Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 1991-1997
Arthur J Ashe III	1966 - 2008	Professor of Chemistry, Macromolecular Science and Engineering Chair, Department of Chemistry 1983-1986
John R. Wiseman	1966 - 2001	Professor of Chemistry
M. David Curtis	1967 - 2005	Professor of Chemistry, Macromolecular Science and Engineering Chair, Department of Chemistry 1986-1991
Mark M. Green	1967 - 1974	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Philip W. LeQuesne	1967 - 1973	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
James E. Mark	1967 - 1977	Professor of Chemistry
Charles G. Overberger	1967 - 1989	Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 1966-1972 Vice President for Research
Lawrence L. Lohr	1968 - 2002	Professor of Chemistry
Richard F. Copeland Jr.	1969 - 1970	Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Billy J. Evans	1969 - 2003	Professor of Chemistry
John T. Groves III	1969 - 1985	Professor of Chemistry
Joseph P. Marino	1969 - 2003	Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 1997-2002 Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Ralph W. Rudolph	1969 - 1981	Professor of Chemistry
Richard D. Sacks	1969 - 2006	Professor of Chemistry, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
Robert R. Sharp	1969 - 2008	Professor of Chemistry
Michael D. Morris	1969 - 2016	Professor of Chemistry
David L. Dull	1970	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Philip B. Empedocles	1970 - 1975	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
John M. Haschke	1970 - 1976	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
David S. Weiss	1972 - 1978	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Charles F. Yocum	1973 - 2010	Professor of Chemistry Professor of Biological Sciences Alfred S. Sussman Professor of Biology
Donald J. Hupe	1974 - 1980	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Nancy Konigsberg Kerner	1975 - 2015	Lecturer IV in Chemistry Lecturer IV in Chemistry Emerita
Anthony H. Francis	1975 - 2016	Professor of Chemistry
Russell D. Larsen	1977 - 1983	Associate Professor of Chemistry
Alfred P. Sattelberger	1977 - 1984	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Donald H. Stedman	1977 - 1983	Associate Professor of Chemistry, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
George David Joseph Phillies	1978 - 1985	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Masato Koreeda	1978 - 2014	Professor of Chemistry Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Leroy Townsend	1979 - 2000	Albert B. Prescott Professor of Medicinal Chemistry Professor of Chemistry
Peter Wuts	1979 - 1984	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Mark E. Meyerhoff	1979 - 2023	Professor of Chemistry
Ronald W. Woodard	1980 - 2019	Professor of Chemistry Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Odile G. Eisenstein	1982 - 1984	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Dimitri N. Coucouvanis	1982 - 2010	Professor of Chemistry Lawrence S. Bartell Collegiate Professor of Chemistry
William Hardy Pearson	1984 - 2003	Professor of Chemistry
John R. Barker	1985 - 2014	Professor of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science Professor of Chemistry
Paul Knochel	1987 - 1993	Professor of Chemistry
James K. Coward	1987 - 2008	Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
John L. Gland	1988 - 2009	Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Chemical Engineering
Carol Korzeniewski	1988 - 1994	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Stephen Lee	1988 - 1998	Professor of Chemistry
Jurgens H. Schnitker	1989 - 1995	Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy
Jeffrey S. Moore	1990 - 1993	Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Gary D. Glick	1990 - 2016	Professor of Chemistry
Philip C. Andrews	1990 - 2022	Professor of Biological Chemistry, Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics - Medical School Research Professor, Biological Chemistry-Medical School Professor of Chemistry-LSA
Coleen R. Pugh	1992 - 1998	Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Peter L. Toogood	1992 - 1998	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Christine E. Evans	1993 - 2000	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Richard A. Goldstein	1993 - 2003	Associate Professor of Chemistry Associate Research Scientist, Academic Program Chair, Biophysics Research Division
William R. Roush	1997 - 2004	Professor of Chemistry Warner-Lambert/Park Davis Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 2002-2004
Larry W. Beck	1998 - 2005	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Omar M. Yaghi	1999 - 2005	Professor of Chemistry Robert W. Parry Collegiate Professor of Chemistry
Edwin Vedejs	1999 - 2011	Professor of Chemistry Moses Gomberg Collegiate Professor of Chemistry
Carol A. Fierke	1999 - 2017	Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics Professor of Biological Chemistry Dean of Horace H Rackham School of Graduate Studies
Marc J. A. Johnson	2001 - 2009	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Yong-Eun Koo Lee	2001 - 2012	Associate Research Scientist, Chemistry
Ioan Andricioaei	2003 - 2007	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Barry Dunietz	2004 - 2011	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Kate S. Carroll	2006 - 2010	Assistant Professor of Chemistry Research Assistant Professor Life Sciences Institute
Katrin Karbstein	2006 - 2010	Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Karunesh Arora	2008 - 2015	Assistant Research Scientist in Chemistry

Chemistry

List of Professors

Douglass Houghton

Silas Hamilton Douglas

Alfred DuBois

Preston Benjamin Rose

John William Langley

Otis C. Johnson

Henry Sylvester Cheever

Victor C. Vaughan

Frederick George Novy

Paul Caspar Freer

Edward DeMille Campbell

Moses Gomberg

David M. Lichty

George Oswin Higley

Albert Benjamin Prescott

Perry Fox Trowbridge

Samuel Lawrence Bigelow

George Augustus Hulett

Harry Newton Cole

Frederick Levy Dunlap

William G. Smeaton

William Jay Hale

Samuel Colville Lind

Lee Holt Cone

Karl Wilhelm Zimmerschied

Robert J. Carney

Floyd E. Bartell

Roy Kenneth McAlpine

Richard Chase Tolman

Alfred L. Ferguson

Hobart H. Willard

Chester Seitz Schoepfle

Joseph Stanley Laird

Clifford Cyrille Meloche

Albert Becker Peck

James H. Hodges

Byron Avery Soule

Philip Francis Weatherill

Frederick Franklin Blicke

Howard Bishop Lewis

Werner Emmanuel Bachmann

Chester Baker Slawson

Lee Owen Case

Joseph O. Halford

Leigh Charles Anderson

Herbert O. Calvery

John Reginald Bates

Kasimir Fajans

Roger H. Gillette

Lawrence O. Brockway

Raymond N. Keller

Theodore H. Berlin

Peter A. S. Smith

Robert W. Parry

Edgar F. Westrum

Wyman Risting Vaughan

Charles L. Rulfs

Robert Cooper Taylor

William W Meinke

Robert Cooley Elderfield

Philip Elving

Milton Tamres

Richard Bernstein

Andrew G DeRocco

Christer E. Nordman

R. Martin Stiles

Adon A. Gordus

Robert E. Ireland

Alfred A. Schilt

Richard Stephen Berry

John J. Eisch

Michael McCulloch Martin

Dean William Cooke

Chui Fan Liu

Daniel T. Longone

Richard G. Lawton

John Lawrence Oncley

S.M. Blinder