Professional Positions:

• Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Yale Medical School, 1955-1958.
• Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1958 - 1960.
• Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University, 1960 - 1964.
• Professor of Chemistry, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1964 - 1995.
• Research Professor in ChemistryBiochemistry, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1995-present.

Academies and Fellows

American Chemical Society Awards

• National Academy of Sciences (USA), 1974.
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1976.
• Guggenheim Fellow, 1979-1980.
• Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1989.
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 1993.

• Richard C. Tolman Medal of the Southern California Section, 1979.
• Second recipient of the Repligen Medal for "Outstanding contributions to the understanding of the chemistry of biological processes, with particular emphasis on structure, function and mechanism." 1987.
• Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (Organic Chemistry), 1987.
• First recipient of the Alfred Bader Medal for "Outstanding contributions in Bioinorganic and Bioorganic Chemistry", 1988.
• Renaud Award of the Michigan State Section, 1988.
• James Flack Norris Award "Outstanding contributions to Physical Organic Chemistry", 1996.

National Institutes of Health Awards

• Career Development Award, 1956.
• Life-time Investigator Award, 1962.
• MERIT Award, 1990.
• MERIT Award, 1997.

Citations

• Listed as among "The 1,000 Contemporary Scientists Most-Cited 1965-1978," (Current Contents, 41, October 12, 1981).
• Listed as among "The World's 50 Most Cited Chemists" Ranked by Total Citations, 1984-1991" (Science Watch, 3[4]: May 1992).
• Faculty Research Award, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1970.
• "Reaction Mechanisms in Chemistry and Enzymology": A Symposium to Honor Professors Thomas Bruice and William Jencks, Sponsored by the Merck, Sharp and Dohme Laboratories, October 21 and 22, 1985.

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