Tobin Marks Named 2009 Herman Pines Award Winner

2 April 2009

Tobin Marks Named 2009 Herman Pines Award Winner

The Herman Pines Award Selection Committee of the Catalysis Club of Chicago is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2009 Award is Professor Tobin Marks of the Department of Chemistry at The Northwestern University. The Award is given in recognition of Tobin’s outstanding contributions in the areas of both homogenous and heterogeneous catalysis. Tobin’s work has had major impact on contemporary catalytic science with pioneering studies of olefin polymerization, supported organometallic catalysts, metal-ligand bonding energetics, and f-element catalysis.  

 

Tobin has served on numerous scientific committees, governmental and industrial advisory boards and review panels, has mentored over 100 PhD students and nearly as many postdoctoral fellows, with more than 90 alumni holding academic positions worldwide. Tobin has over 900 publications and 88 patents. His current h-index is 102.

 Prof. Marks will receive the Award during the Catalysis Club of Chicago Spring Symposium to be held on May 18, 2009 at the BP Research Center in Naperville. Prof. Marks will deliver the keynote address.