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Feb. 13, 2009

Chemist F. Fleming Crim to present McGavock Lecture at Trinity University

SAN ANTONIO – Professor F. Fleming Crim, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present two lectures as a part of Trinity University’s McGavock Lecture Series:

·                    “Using Lasers to Explore and Control Chemical Reactions” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18, in the Cowles Life Science Building Room 336.

·                    “Connecting Chemical Reaction Dynamics in Gases and Liquids” will be discussed at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, in Moody Engineering Building Room 105.  Refreshments will precede this lecture at 3:45 p.m. in Moody Engineering Building Room 206.

Professor Fleming Crim was born in 1947 in Waco, Texas. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Southwestern University, Georgetown in 1969 and a doctorate from Cornell University in 1974. He became a member of the research staff at Western Electric and, in 1976, moved to Los Alamos National Laboratory as a director's post-doctoral staff member. He joined the department of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1977. Presently, he is the John E. Willard Professor and the Hilldale Professor of Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1998, he received the Earle K. Plyler Prize in Molecular Spectroscopy from the American Physical Society. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He received the Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics from the American Chemical Society in 2006. The Royal Society of Chemistry will award him a silver medal as a Centenary Lecturer for 2008-2009.

The McGavock Program is supported by an endowment from the estate of Dr. and Mrs. William Crews McGavock and by donations from chemistry and biochemistry alumni. Dr. McGavock was a physical chemist, and he and his wife, Ina Beth, were both members of the Trinity faculty for more than 30 years. Dr. McGavock was instrumental in establishing the tradition of faculty and student research in the chemistry department.

For more information, contact Trinity’s chemistry department at 210-999-7316.

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