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Obituaries

Obituary: Martin J. O’Donnell

by Nina Notman, special to C&EN
September 9, 2023 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 101, Issue 30

 

Martin J. O’Donnell, 77, died Aug. 1, 2023, in Indianapolis.

“I remember first meeting Marty in his lab and his hand was bandaged up from shoving a glass tube through a rubber stopper (those were the old days), and deciding he really did need to spend more time in the library and less time in the lab.”—Robin Polt, undergraduate advisee at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, 1978–82

Most recent title: Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

Education: BS, chemistry, University of Iowa, 1968; PhD, organic chemistry, Yale University, 1973

Survivors: Wife, Kitty; children, Patrick, Michael, and Kathleen; six grandchildren

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