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Thursday, April 26, 2007 Miller Inn W. State Street west of 37th Street Milwaukee, WI

DIRECTIONS

6:00 PM - Social Hour
7:00 PM - Dinner
8:00 PM - Meeting and Program

Dinner – catered by “Saz’s Restaurant” (Prices include tax and gratuity)
            •           Entrees
            ◦           BBQ Baby Back Pork Ribs
            ◦           Herbed Chicken
with:
            ◦           Creamy Coleslaw
            ◦           Sundried Tomato Pasta Salad with Feta
            ◦           Tossed Garden salad
            ◦           Pasta with Red Sauce
            ◦           Garlic Roasted Redskin potatoes
            ◦           Baked Beans

Members/Guests – $22.00
Chemistry Students – $10.00

For dinner reservations, please call
Bruce Warren at Marquette University
 (414) 288-7065
or
e-mail: bruce.warren@mu.edu

subject="ACS Dinner Reservation"
 by
Friday, April 20, 2007
All are welcome.
 Come and hear the speaker without attending the dinner.

ABSTRACT

Progress in science and technology is dependent on the psychology and personality of its practitioners. When we evaluate technological advancement, the human side of science is something we all share but frequently overlook. Through the use of photographs of famous chemists taken over the last 90 years, the role of various personality and societal factors will be discussed (e.g., ego, pride, sincerity, roots and tradition, family, collaboration and competition, social consciousness, and humor). Numerous anecdotes about these scientists revealing the human side of science will also be presented. Many of these photographs and stories appear in a series of autobiographies (Profiles, Pathways, and Dreams) of famous chemists published by the American Chemical Society and edited by Jeff Seeman. Five of the authors are Nobel laureates (Derek Barton, Melvin Calvin, Donald Cram, Bruce Merrifield, and Vladimir Prelog)! The autobiographies are international, as chemistry in many countries is described (e.g., Arthur Birch in Australia, Tetsuo Nozoe and Teruaki Mukaiyama in Japan, Rolf Huisgen in Germany, and Egbert Havinga in the Netherlands).  The talk will be of interest to chemists of all levels as well as to individuals interested in the development, history, and philosophy of science.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Jeffrey I. Seeman received his B.S. with high honors in 1967 from the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1971 from the University of California, Berkeley. Following a two-year staff fellowship at the Laboratory of Chemical Physics of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, he joined the Philip Morris Research Center in Richmond, Virginia. In 1983-84, he enjoyed a sabbatical year at the Dyson Perrins Laboratory in Oxford, England, and claims to have visited more than 90 percent of the castles in England, Wales, and Scotland.  Seeman's 90 published papers include research and patents in the areas of photochemistry, nicotine and tobacco alkaloid chemistry and synthesis, conformational analysis, pyrolysis chemistry, organotransition metal chemistry, the use of cyclodextrins for chiral recognition, and structure-activity relationships in olfaction. He was a plenary lecturer at the Eighth IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry held in Tokyo in 1986 and has been an invited lecturer at numerous scientific meetings and universities. Currently, Seeman serves on the Petroleum Research Fund Advisory Board. He continues to count Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin among his best friends.