Harry B. Gray
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| Born | Harry Barkus Gray November 14, 1935 Woodburn, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
| Residence | U.S.A. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Chemistry |
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Columbia University California Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater |
Western Kentucky University (B.S.) (1957) Northwestern University (Ph.D) (1960) Northwestern University (D.Sc.) |
| Doctoral advisor |
Fred Basolo Ralph Pearson |
| Doctoral students | Daniel G. Nocera, Holden Thorp, Jay R. Winkler, Mark S. Wrighton, Jillan L. Dempsey |
| Other notable students | Nathan Lewis |
| Known for |
Bioinorganic Chemistry Electron Transfer chemistry |
| Notable awards | ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1970) Tolman Award (1979) National Medal of Science (1986) AIC Gold Medal (1990) Priestley Medal (1991) Harvey Prize (2000) Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2004) Welch Award (2009) Othmer Gold Medal (2013) |
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 Harry Gray discusses How Arnold O. Beckman's Instrumental Voice Shaped Chemistry's History, and the Beckman Institute at Caltech; Profiles in Chemistry, Chemical Heritage Foundation
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Harry Barkus Gray (born 14 November 1935 in Woodburn, Kentucky, U.S.A.) is the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology.
Gray received his B.S. in Chemistry from Western Kentucky University in 1957. He began his work in inorganic chemistry at Northwestern University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1960 working under Fred Basolo and Ralph Pearson. He was initiated into the Upsilon chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma at Northwestern University in 1958. After that, he spent a year (1960–61) as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, where, along with Walter A. Manch, he collaborated with Carl J. Ballhausen on studies of the electronic structures of metal complexes.
After completing his NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, he went to New York to take up a faculty appointment at Columbia University. He became an assistant professor from 1961 to 1963, associate professor from 1963 to 1965 and professor from 1965 to 1966.
In 1966, he moved to the California Institute of Technology, where he became the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute.
Gray's interdisciplinary research program addresses a wide range of fundamental problems in inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, and biophysics. Electron transfer (ET) chemistry is a unifying theme for much of this research.
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