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Cite This: J. Phys. Chem. B 2018, 122, 3211−3211
Curriculum Vitae of Benjamin Widom • Boris Pregel Award for Research in Chemical Physics, New York Academy of Sciences, 1976 • ACS Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics, 1982 • Dickson Prize for Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1986 • Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry, U. of Wisconsin, 1991−92 • ACS Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids, 1992 • Bakhuis Roozeboom Medal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1994 • Onsager Medal, U. of Trondheim, 1994 • Boltzmann Medal, IUPAP Commission on Statistical Physics, 1998 • ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry, 1999
Born October 13, 1927, in Newark, New Jersey
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DEGREES • • • •
A.B., Columbia University, 1949 Ph.D., Cornell University (with S.H. Bauer), 1953 D. Sc. (hon.), U. of Chicago, 1991 Doctor honoris causa, U. of Utrecht, 1999
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS • Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina (with O.K. Rice), 1952−54 • Instructor of Chemistry, Cornell University, 1954−55 • Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University, 1955−59 • Associate Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University, 1959−63 • Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University, 1963−83 • Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Cornell University, 1978−81 • Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University, 1983−2007 • Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry emeritus, Graduate School Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University, 2007−
VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS • van der Waals Professor, University of Amsterdam, 1972 • Visiting Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University, 1975 • IBM Visiting Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Oxford, 1978 • Firth Visiting Professor of Chemistry, Sheffield, 1981 • Lecturer, 3ème Cycle de la Physique en Suisse Romande, Lausanne, 1985 • Lorentz Professor, University of Leiden, 1985 • Visiting Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1988 • Visiting Professor, Université d’Aix Marseille III, 1995 • Kramers/Debye Professor, University of Utrecht, 1999
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS • • • • •
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1970− Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1974− Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1979− Member, American Philosophical Society, 1993− Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences, 1994−
AWARDS Special Issue: Benjamin Widom Festschrift
• Clark Distinguished Teaching Award, Cornell University, 1973 © 2018 Benjamin Widom
Published: April 5, 2018 3211
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b00124 J. Phys. Chem. B 2018, 122, 3211−3211
