Cecil L. Brown Lectureship 2011 Oct 4, 2011 [ this year | register | about Cecil L. Brown | flyer ] The biennial Cecil L. Brown Lectureship was established by NJ-ACS in 1969 to bring a distinguished chemist to a local university in the North Jersey area. Past recipients of this lectureship include seven Nobel laureates as well as many other towering figures in chemistry.

The 2011 Cecil L. Brown Lecture will be held at 3:00 pm on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at the Fiber Optics Auditorium on the Busch Campus of Rutgers University, Piscataway NJ, followed by a reception. [ details ]

The 2011 Distinguished Lecturer is Professor Louis Brus, Institute Professor at Columbia University. Professor Brus has a BA from Rice University and a PhD from Columbia University, both in Chemical Physics. As a Lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, he worked in the solid state and chemistry divisions of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC. In 1973 he joined the research area of Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, where he became Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. He returned to Columbia in 1996, where he is now S. L. Mitchill Professor of Chemistry. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and in 1998 was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Gordon Conferences. He was originally trained in gas phase spectroscopy and kinetics. In the 1980s he explored basic ideas and colloidal methods for semiconductor nanocrystals (Qdots) that exhibit quantum size effects. His present interests include carbon nanotubes and graphene, chemical applications of local electromagnetic fields, and solar energy nanoscience. He has received the APS Langmuir Prize, the ACS Chemistry of Materials Prize, the OSA Wood Prize, the inaugural Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, and the NAS Prize in the Chemical Sciences. For further details of Professor Brus's work, visit www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/groups/brus

“Electron Correlation in Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene”

by Professor Louis Brus

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Cecil L. Brown This lectureship was named after Cecil L. Brown, who spent his entire professional career at Esso (which later became Exxon) and chaired NJ-ACS as well as the Petroleum Division of national ACS in the 1950s. He was also the Chairman of the Esso Research Contributions and Research Grants Committee. During his chairmanship some 400 grants were made to 60 colleges and universities. As an administrative member of the Esso Education Foundation, he helped carry out a special $1.5 million program for the improvement of science and engineering teaching in New Jersey. He was a strong a proponent of having world-class chemists visit and work with students. Through the Cecil L. Brown Lecture, it is fitting that his name continues to be associated with excellence in chemical education in our area. Photos from the Cecil Brown Lecture of Feb 3, 2009 1.  Bill Suits organizing the registration 2.  NoJ-ACS Chair Joseph Potenza [right] with Cecil Brown Lecturer Robert Langer 3.  The audience admin login