news PEOPLE Zare to receive 2005 Wolf Prize in Chemistry Richard N. Zare of Stanford University will be awarded the 2005 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for his seminal contributions to physical and analytical chemistry. The $100,000 prize will be presented to Zare by the president of Israel on May 22 at a special ceremony in Jerusalem. Zare received his Ph.D. in chemical physics from Harvard University in 1964. He has been a professor at Stanford University since 1977. His research interests have centered on the use of lasers for probing the distribution of electrons in atoms and molecules, and
the application of high-resolution and ultrasensitive physical techniques to biochemical and chemical analysis. Zare’s research “initiated the development of a series of novel techniques in applied physical chemistry that subsequently became indispensable to progress in chemical and biochemical analysis, particularly in relation to detection at the single-molecule, area-selective, and sub-cellular levels,” stated the Wolf Prize jury. Ligler
Ligler and Whitesides elected to NAE The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) elected 74 new members in February, 2 of whom regularly contribute to Analytical Chemistry. Frances S. Ligler, senior scientist for biosensors and biomaterials at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, was chosen for her work in developing portable, automated biosensors that rapidly detect pathogens, tox-
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ins, pollutants, drugs of abuse, and explosives. George M. Whitesides, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, was chosen for his work in developing methods of selfassembly and soft lithography. Whitesides is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work crisscrosses the fields of biochemistry, materials science, catalysis, and physical organic chemistry.
