Editorial Cite This: ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 8685-8685
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Celebrating 50 Years of Research by a Catalysis Icon s ACS Catalysis closes out the year with its 12th issue, I wish to bring attention to a special paper celebrating Alexis T. Bell’s 50th year as an academic researcher at UC Berkeley. After completing his preuniversity schooling at McBurney School in New York City, Bell earned B.S. and Sc.D. degrees in chemical engineering at MIT. Joining the chemical engineering faculty at Berkeley in 1967, Alex has taught courses, mentored students, directed research, and provided leadership for 50 years. And today, after more than 700 publications, Bell’s research program is as strong as it has ever been. Fortunately for the global catalysis community, there is great potential for many more years of contributions from the Bell laboratory. Bell has made a diverse array of research contributions to spectroscopy, catalysis, and reaction engineering over a period of 50 years. As a result, it is impossible to cover all aspects of Bell’s impact on the scholarly literature or his impacts on the catalysis community in a short article. Nonetheless, a group of former mentees, representing different eras of the “Bell Choir”, have assembled a wonderful Account of his career to date and some of his key impacts on the discipline. I encourage all members of the catalysis community to check out the article and congratulate Alex on his first 50 years of contributions to the academic research enterprise. The collected editors at ACS Catalysis look forward to many more years of discoveries and insights emanating from the Bell laboratory.
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Christopher W. Jones, Editor-in-Chief
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b03959 ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 8685−8685
