Vanderbilt
Register
Front Page
Links
Vanderbilt chemistry professor receives prestigious Cope Scholar Award
Ned A. Porter, the first holder of the Stevenson Chair in Chemistry at Vanderbilt University, has received the prestigious Cope Scholar Award. Announcement of the award was made at the American Chemical Society’s annual meeting in New Orleans Aug. 24.
The award consists of a $5,000 cash prize, a certificate and a $40,000 unrestricted research grant to be assigned by the recipient to any university or non-profit institution. As recipient of the award, Porter is required to deliver a lecture at the annual Arthur C. Cope Symposium in August 2000. Cope, a longtime professor of chemistry at MIT, was a leader in the field of mechanistic organic chemistry.
“This award is quite an achievement and a big feather in Ned’s cap,” said David Hercules, chair of Vanderbilt’s Department of Chemistry. “It’s also very good for Vanderbilt University. We’re very pleased.”
Porter is recognized as one of the best physical organic chemists in the nation. He came to Vanderbilt last fall from Duke University, where he served on the faculty for 28 years, the last 14 as the James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry. Porter also has been the recipient of a National Institutes of Health Career Award, a Humboldt Senior Fellow and recipient of an NIH Merit Award.
Porter received his B.S. in 1965 from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in 1969 from Harvard University. The author of more than 170 publications, he co-authored a 1996 book on Control of Stereochemistry in Free Radical Reactions; Concepts, Guidelines and Synthetic Applications.