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Thomas C. Bruice, coined the term "bio-organic chemistry", member of National Academy of Science [11] Craig Hawker [12] Bruce H. Lipshutz, professor, made significant contributions to copper catalyzed organic reactions [13] Ralph G. Pearson, Emeritus, coined the concepts of "hard" and "soft" for acids and bases [14] [15]
Convergence is the magazine of Engineering and the Sciences at UC Santa Barbara. Sponsored by the College of Engineering, the Division of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences in the College of Letters and Science, and the California NanoSystems Institute, Convergence was begun in early 2005 as a three-times-a-year print publication.
UCSB Engineering is home to the nation's first NSF-funded Quantum Foundry, a center dedicated to developing materials for quantum information-based technologies. The College operates as the West Coast hub of the American Photonics Manufacturing Institute and is a key participant in the federal Next Generation Power Electronics Institute.
Robert Ballard, an oceanographer who discovered the RMS Titanic in 1985, graduated from UCSB in 1965 with a degree in chemistry and geology. Actors who have studied at UCSB include Academy Award winner Michael Douglas , who received a B.A. in drama in 1968 and who is honorary president of the UCSB Alumni Association, and Gwyneth Paltrow , who ...
The graduate program was ranked fifth (or sixth, depending on which method used) among physics program in the 2011 study by the National Research Council. [10] U.S. News & World Report ranked the graduate program tenth in the country across all subfields, third in Condensed Matter Physics, fifth in Quantum Physics, eighth in Elementary Particles/Field/String Theory, and ninth in Cosmology ...
Stucky was born on December 17, 1936, in McPherson, Kansas. [6] [7] He graduated with a Bachelor's of Science degree at McPherson College in 1957. [6]Stucky pursued graduate studies at Iowa State University, where he worked under Prof. Robert E. Rundle on the synthesis and characterization of the diethyl ether-solvated phenylmagnesium bromide Grignard reagent, [8] [9] and an oxidation product ...
Susannah L. Scott is a Canadian-American chemist who is Professor of Surface Chemistry and the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Sustainable Catalysis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research considers the design of heterogeneous catalysts for the efficient conversion of feedstocks and catalysts that improve the environment
The University of California, Santa Barbara Library is the university library system of the University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California.The library has some three million print volumes, 30,000 electronic journals, 34,450 e-books, 900,055 digitized items, five million cartographic items (including some 467,000 maps and 3.2 million satellite and aerial images), more than ...