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Dr. Berg received his B.S. from Pennsylvania State University and Ph.D. from Western Reserve (now Case Western Reserve) University. He had several post doctoral positions before going to Stanford University where he has held endowed professorships in the Department of Biochemistry at the Stanford School of Medicine. He has been at the Salk Institute for ten years, and was Director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, and Cahill Professor for Cancer Research. Since 2000 Dr. Berg has had Emeritus status and has remained active in research and science policy.
Dr. Berg has received numerous prestigious awards culminating with the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing methods that make it possible to analyze the structure and function of DNA and its role in the development of genetic engineering. He has played a preeminent role in studying risks and rewards for genetic and recombinant DNA research. He chaired the first Science Advisory Committee of the Human Genome Project, and came out is support of therapeutic cloning to produce stemm cells for research and therapeutic purposes.
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Dr. Burnaby Munson attended Tarleton State College (then a junior college) and received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas, Austin. From 1959 to 1967, he was at Esso (Humble) Research and Engineering in Baytown, Texas, where he began research in mass spectrometry and gas phase ion/molecule reactions with Dr. Joe L. Franklin and Dr. Frank H. Field. With Frank Field, he developed the technique of chemical ionization mass spectrometry, CIMS – an analytical application of gas phase ion/molecule reactions at “high” pressures (for mass spectrometry) – that is routinely used for characterization of organic compounds, particularly in conjunction with gas chromatography. Dr. Munson’s research and that of his students has been on the thermochemistry, kinetics, and analytical applications of gas phase ion/molecule reactions.
Dr. Munson has been at the University of Delaware since 1967, where he currently the C. Eugene Bennett Professor of Chemistry. He has taught freshman for most of his 40+ years at Delaware, as well as advanced courses in physical and analytical chemistry, and has received teaching awards from the University. He was the Director of the University Honors Program, Chair of the Delaware Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS), and President of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS). He received the ACS Field and Franklin Award in Mass Spectrometry, the Distinguished Contributions Award from ASMS, and recently the EAS Award for Achievement in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry.
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Dr. E. Gerald Meyer received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University) and after WWII service in the U.S. Navy earned a Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. His career has been with academic institutions first in New Mexico and then since 1963 at the University of Wyoming, where he has been Professor of Chemistry and successively Dean of Arts and Sciences and Vice President for Research. He is currently an Emeritus Professor and Dean. During this time Dr. Meyer has been active in higher education organizations including being a founding dean of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, and in scientific organization including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for technical programs, the American Institute of Chemists where he has served on the Board and as President, and the American Chemical Society where he has served in various capacities at the national, regional and local levels. Dr. Meyer has received awards from the University of Wyoming, and the ACS. In 2006 he was awarded the National Volunteer Service prize of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Meyer’s research is in coal technology where he has developed a process for refining coal in a manner analogous to refining petroleum. This technology makes coal an important raw material to produce “petrochemicals” plus a fuel, char, which has essentially no sulfur and nitrogen. To commercialize the process Dr. Meyer has formed Advanced Clean Coal Technologies, and is planning a 100 tpd plant to be built in 2008. |
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