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Edward I. Solomon | |
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Born | Edward Ira Solomon 1946 (age 77–78) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute B.S. (1968) Princeton University Ph.D. (1972) |
Spouse | Darlene Solomon |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Bioinorganic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Theoretical Chemistry |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Thesis | The Jahn-Teller Effect in the Orbital Triplet Excited States of Octahedral Manganese(II) (1972) |
Doctoral advisor | Donald S. McClure |
Other academic advisors | Carl J. Ballhausen, Harry B. Gray |
Doctoral students | Serena DeBeer, Darlene Joy Spira, Andrew Gewirth, Peng Chen, Daniel Gamelin, Abhishek Dey |
Other notable students | Frank Neese, Thomas Brunold, James Penner-Hahn |
Website | web |
Edward I. Solomon (born 1946) is the Monroe E. Spaght Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. He is an elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences,[1] a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2][3] He has been profiled in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[4] He has been a longtime collaborator with many scientists, including his colleague at Stanford University Keith Hodgson for the study of metalloenzyme active sites by x-ray spectroscopy, along with the synthetic chemists Richard H. Holm, Stephen J. Lippard, Lawrence Que Jr. and Kenneth D. Karlin.