COSAM News Articles 2024 03 John F. Hartwig from UC Berkeley will present the Kosolapoff Award Lecture on March 27

John F. Hartwig from UC Berkeley will present the Kosolapoff Award Lecture on March 27

Published: 03/25/2024

Join us for this year’s Kosolapoff Award Lecture, Catalyzing Chemical Synthesis, featuring John F. Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley on Wednesday, March 27 at 8 p.m. in the Science Center Auditorium.

Hartwig, a professor of chemistry and the Henry Rapoport Chair in Organic Chemistry, focuses on “the discovery and understanding of new reactions of organic compounds catalyzed by transition metal complexes and artificial metalloenzymes.”

His research areas of interest include organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry and chemical biology.

His awards and accolades include an impressive array of achievements in chemistry: Arthur C. Cope Award, Clarivate Citation Laureate, John Gamble Kirkwood Award, Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry, Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry, John C. Bailor Jr. Medal, University of Illinois, Elected Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, J. Willard Gibbs Medal Award, Chicago Section of ACS, Organometallics Senior Fellowship, Janssen Pharmaceutica Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, Sierra Nevada Section of the ACS Distinguished Chemist Award, Tetrahedron Chair at the Belgium Symposium on Organic Synthesis, Nagoya Gold Medal Award, National Institutes of Health MERIT Award, ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science, Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods, Member, National Academy of Sciences, Einstein Visiting Fellowship, Berlin, GlaxoSmithKline Scholars Award, National Institutes of Health MERIT Award, Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award, Japan (2009); Joseph Chatt Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Mukaiyama Award from the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan, International Catalysis Award, International Association of Catalysis Societies, Paul N. Rylander Award, Organic Reactions Catalysis Society, Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in Organic Synthesis, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences, ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry, Thieme-IUPAC Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award and A.C. Cope Scholar Award.

The annual Kosolapoff Award Lecture is presented by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Sciences and Mathematics. The host is Rashad Karimov.

Learn more about his research on the Hartwig Group’s website.