NJACS - Cecil Brown Lectureship

Cecil L. Brown Lectureship 2006
November 30, 2006

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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:

Past Recipients
1969 Paul Flory 1970 Vladimir Prelog 1972 Robert Reid 1973 Linus Pauling 1974 Burt Christensen 1976 James Roth -- Spring 1976 Max Tischler -- Fall		1978 Robert Lawrence & Kurt Frisch 1979 Leo Sternbach 1980 Melvin Calvin 1982 Herbert C. Brown 1984 Alexander Rich 1986 Sir John Vane 1988 Paul Bartlett		1990 Joseph Laskowski 1992 Kyriacos Nicolaou 1994 Dudley Hirschbach 1996 Peter B. Dervan 1998 Ronald Breslow 2006 Robin Hochstrasser

The 2006 Lecturer was Professor Robin Hochstrasser. He is currently the Donner Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1982. Prof. Hochstraseer is the recipient of the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2003, as well as three major national ACS awards. As one of the premier laser spectroscopists of our time, he pioneered the field of ultrafast spectroscopy to gain fundamental molecular-level understanding of the dynamics in complex systems. More recently, he developed the Infrared spectroscopic analog of 2D NMR in the fetosecond scale and made single molecule measurements of proteins. In addition, he has mentored a large number of Ph. D. students who later became prominent chemistry faculties, most notable among them is Ahmed Zewail.

The 2006 Cecil L. Brown Lecture will be held at 11 am on Nov 30, 2006 at the Wright Laboratory Auditorium at Rutgers University, Piscataway:

Stretching infrared spectroscopy pinpoints fluctuations of proteins and peptides

Abstract: New nonlinear optical methods are developed that allow visualization of the fluctuations of proteins at a chemical bond scale. They are the infrared analogues of two dimensional NMR and they give information on the backbone configurations, the bond motions and the surrounding water structure and its dynamics. Applications to small peptides, alpha helices, tryptophan zippers and transmembrane proteins will be discussed.

Lunch will be provided to all participants following the lecture. Please pre-register using the form below to help us keep track of our attendees. Directions to Rutgers University can be found Here. Download a permit for free parking. Forward a flyer to a friend who may be interested in this event.

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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 Esso Researchs 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.

Dr. Robin Hochstrasser,
2006 Cecil Brown Lecturer

Jiwen Chen, NJACS Awards Chair, David Talaga, Rutgers Univ. Professor, Robin Hochstrasser, Cecil Brown Lecturer, and Bill Suits NJACS Meetings Chair