Anthony J. Arduengo III
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| Born | 1952 Tampa, Florida, USA |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Inorganic chemistry, Organic chemistry, Unusual Valency |
| Institutions |
University of Alabama; Technische Universität - Braunschweig; DuPont Central Research; University of Illinois |
| Alma mater | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | E.M. Burgess |
| Known for | Unusual Valency, Carbene Chemistry |
| Notable awards | Alexander von Humboldt Prize; Fellow - American Association for the Advancement of Science; ICMGC Gold Medal for Excellence in Main-Group Element Chemistry |
Anthony Joseph Arduengo III is the Saxon Professor of Chemistry at the University of Alabama and an adjunct professor at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry of Braunschweig University of Technology in Germany. He is notable for his work on chemical compounds with unusual valency, especially in the field of stable carbene research.
Anthony "Bo" Arduengo was born in 1952 in Tampa, Florida. He grew up in the Atlanta, Georgia area. His father was a pressman and mechanic with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and instilled his son with an interest and skill for all things mechanical and scientific. By the age of 16, he and his father had built his first car from miscellaneous parts. The car was registered as street-legal and road-worthy. With some re-engineering, the car was later fitted to run on alternate fuels including alcohol and hydrogen (which would foretell Arduengo's professional research involvement with President Bush's 2003 National Hydrogen Fuel Initiative (HFI) and United States Department of Energy's Chemical Hydrogen Storage Program by more than 30 years).
Arduengo attended Bouldercrest and Meadowview Elementary Schools, and Walker High School. In 1969 he left high school with enrollment in Georgia Tech's Joint Enrollment Program for High School Students (JEPHS). He obtained his BSc (1974, cum laude) and his PhD (1976) at Georgia Tech, advised by Edward M. Burgess. That made him an academic descendant of Justus von Liebig. As an undergraduate at Georgia Tech, Arduengo's research activities began in the laboratory of Professor Charles L. Liotta. He was awarded NSF undergraduate fellowships in 1972 & 1973 when he had moved to research in the Burgess group.
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