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By Wendy PlumpDepartment of ChemistryAugust 20, 2020 Paul Chirik, the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry, has received the Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis, one of 60 national awards administered this month by the American Chemical Society (ACS) for 2021. The Somorjai Award recognizes outstanding theoretical, experimental, or developmental research resulting…
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By Wendy PlumpDepartment of ChemistryMay 26, 2020 The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Jose Roque has been awarded a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, one of sixteen such fellowships awarded annually throughout Princeton University in disciplines spanning the sciences and humanities. Roque will join the Chirik Group. Roque is completing his Ph.D. at…
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By Hillary RosnerOct. 15, 2012 In a lab in Princeton University’s ultra-sleek chemistry building, researchers toil in a modern-day hunt for an elusive power: alchemy. Throughout the centuries, alchemists tried in vain to transform common metals like iron and lead into precious ones like gold or platinum. Today, Paul Chirik, a professor of chemistry at…