Announcing the 2009 Winner of the NYSAS Gold Medal Award
Dr. Isao Noda
Biography
Isao Noda was born in Tokyo, Japan. He came to the United States in 1969 and was graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York in 1974 with B.S. degree in chemical engineering. He also received his M.S. in bioengineering (1976), as well as M.Phil. (1978) and Ph.D. (1979) in chemical engineering from Columbia. In 1997 he received D.Sc. degree in chemistry from the University of Tokyo. He is currently a Research Fellow of the Procter and Gamble Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. His research interest is in the broad area of polymer science and spectroscopy. He is well known for the development of two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) correlation spectroscopy. He has also been actively involved in the research and development of a novel class of bio-based biodegradable plastics called NodaxTM. He is a recipient of the 1991 William F. Meggers Award from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy and the 2002 Williams-Wright Award from the Coblentz Society. In 2002, he was appointed to the position of Honorary Adjunct Professor of the Department of Biological Science and Biotechnology at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He was selected as the 2005 Chemist of the Year by the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society. He received the International Academic Cooperation and Exchange Medal in 2008 from the Chinese Chemical Society and Chinese Optical Society.
Speakers at the EAS Gold Medal Session to be held in November 2009
Dr. Curtis A. Marcott
Light Light Solutions, LLC.
PO Box 81486, Athens, GA 30608-1486, USA.
marcott@lightlightsolutions.com
Prof. Bruce Chase
Department of Materials Science
University of Delaware
chasedb@udel.edu
Prof. Hai-Lung Dai
Department of Chemistry
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.
hdai@temple.edu
Prof. Georgia A. Arbuckle
Department of Chemistry
Rutgers University
315 Penn Street, Camden, NJ 08102, USA.
Arbuckle@camden.rutgers.edu
