[282] Tour Makes Golden Goggles Presentation Tonight at MTSU

Release date: Jan. 26, 2011

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Tour Makes Golden Goggles Presentation Tonight at MTSU

(MURFREESBORO) — James M. Tour, Ph.D., a synthetic organic chemist, will speak on “Nanomaterials, Nanoelectronics, Nanomedicine and Nanocars” tonight at 7 during the 15th annual Golden Goggles Invitational Lecture at MTSU. The event will be held in Room 102 of Wiser-Patten Science Hall. The event is free, open to the public and will be held despite the winter weather that hit the region earlier today.
“He (Tour) does a lot of applied work,” said Dr. Andrienne Friedli, MTSU chemistry professor and director of the Center for Advancement of Research and Scholarship. “He’s very entrepreneurial. He does a lot of things that capture kids’ imagination. Everybody may not understand the chemistry, but everybody can relate.”
Tour received a special award in 2008 from the Nashville chapter of the American Chemical Society, Friedli said, adding that he “is a great speaker.”
Tour, a Rice University professor and part of the Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, is a highly acclaimed and awarded scholar, researcher, consultant, board member and more. He was ranked one of the top-10 chemists in the world for the past decade by a Thomson Reuters citations per publication index survey in 2009.
Tour earned his B.S. in chemistry from Syracuse University, his doctorate in synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry from Purdue University and postdoctoral training in synthetic organic chemistry at the University of Wisconsin and Stanford University. He spent 11 years on the University of South Carolina faculty.

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