Mosher Award Goes To Theodore Brown

Theodore L. Brown, an emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and founding director of the Beckman Institute, is the recipient of the 2008 Harry & Carol Mosher Award. The award has been given annually by the ACS Santa Clara Valley Section since 1980 to recognize and encourage outstanding work in chemistry, advance chemistry as a profession, and recognize service to ACS.

Brown's pioneering work on organolithium chemistry provided the first ⁷Li NMR spectra of these compounds and established their dynamic and aggregative character. His classic work on substitution reactions of a wide range of metal carbonyls pioneered the use of flash photolysis for these compounds and revealed new principles and reaction pathways.