Robert E. Ireland (1929-2012)

摘要

Robert Ellsworth Ireland passed away on February "4, 2012 after a prolonged bout with emphysema. Professor Ireland received an A.B. from Amherst in 1951, a Ph.D. under William S. Johnson from the University of Wisconsin in 1954, and studied as a NSF postdoctoral fellow with William G. Young at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1954—56. He joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1956, became Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Caltech in 1965, and took leave in 1985 to become Director of the Merrell-Dow Research Institute in Strasbourg, France. He left France for the University of Virginia in 1986, where he served as Chairman and was the first Thomas Jefferson Professor of Chemistry. He assumed Emeritus status in 1995.