A Tradition of Innovative Thinking Since 1868

2011: Professor Jeff Moore invents polymers that heal themselves.

2011: Professor Wilfred van der Donk and team biosynthesize potent antibiotic in a test tube

2011: Professor M. Christina White makes catalysts that make remarkable chemical reactions happen

2011: Professor Deborah Leckband measures the stickiness of cells to understand cancer metastasis and wound healing

2011: Professor Kenneth Suslick invents seeing nose that can detect chemicals.

2011: Professor Ralph Nuzzo brings unprecedented forms of function from materials.

2011: Professor Nancy Makri simulates the dynamics of quantum fluids.

2011: Professor Cathy Murphy discovers how to control the shape of metallic nanoparticles

1916: St. Elmo Brady breaks a barrier as first African American Ph.D. in chemistry

1972: Paul Lauterbur invents the MRI

1942: World War II effort aided by Charles Price's improved antimalarial synthesis

1939: Ludwig Frederick Audrieth discovers artificial sweetener

1978: Kenneth L. Rinehart isolates anticancer drug ET743 from a Caribbean sea squirt

1939: William C. Rose discovers the essential amino acid threonine.

1938: Worth H. Rodebush pioneers the use of infrared absorption spectroscopy.

1934: John C. Bailar initiates work leading to the monicker: 'father of coordination chemistry'.

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