Chemistry: The Central Science (11th Edition) – Test Bank

About The Author

Bruce E. Bursten

Dr. Bruce E. Bursten received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1978. After 2 years as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Texas A&M University, Dr. Bruce joined the faculty of The Ohio State University, where he rose to the rank of Distinguished University Professor. In 2005, he moved to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Bruce has been a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, and he is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society. At Ohio State he has received the Arts and Sciences Student Council Outstanding Teaching Award in 1984, University Distinguished Teaching Award in 1982 and 1996,and the University Distinguished Scholar Award in 1990. Bursten received the Spiers Memorial Prize and Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2003, and the Morley Medal of the Cleveland Section of the American Chemical Society in 2005. Dr. Bruce was President of the American Chemical Society for 2008. In addition to his teaching and service activities, His research program focuses on compounds of the transition-metal and actinide elements.

Catherine J. Murphy

Dr. Catherine J. Murphy earned two B.S. degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1986, one in Chemistry and the other in Biochemistry. In 1990, she earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin.

From 1990 to 1993, she worked at the California Institute of Technology as a National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow. She joined the University of South Carolina, Columbia, faculty in 1993 and is now the Guy F. Lipscomb Professor of Chemistry.

Professor Murphy has been recognised for both research and teaching as a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient, and a subsequent NSF Award for Special Achievement.

H. Eugene LeMay

Dr. H. Eugene Lemay, Jr., received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Pacific Lutheran University (Washington) and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1966 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Eugene then joined the faculty of the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is currently Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus. Dr. Lemay has enjoyed Visiting Professorships at the University College of Wales in Great Britain, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and at the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Eugene is a popular and effective teacher, who has taught thousands of college students during more than forty years of university teaching. Known for the clarity of his lectures and his sense of humor, he has received several teaching awards, including the University Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award (1991) and the first Regents’ Teaching Award given by the State of Nevada Board of Regents (1997).

Theodore E. Brown

Dr. Theodore E. Brown received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1956. Since then, he has been a member of the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is now Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus. He served as Vice Chancellor for Research, and Dean of The Graduate College, from 1980 to 1986, and as Founding Director of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology from 1987 to 1993.

Dr. Theodore has been an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1972 he was awarded the American Chemical Society Award for Research in Inorganic Chemistry and received the American Chemical Society Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry in 1993. He has been elected a Fellow of the the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Chemical Society.