Position

University Professor  (appointed by the Regents of the University of California)
Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry Department, University of California, Berkeley
Faculty Senior Scientist and Director, Surface Science & Catalysis Program, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

Education

1960 Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1956 B.S., Chemical Engineering, Technical University, Budapest, Hungary

Honorary Degrees
 

2003     Docteur Honoris Causa, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2001     Docteur Honoris Causa, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
2000     Docteur Honoris Causa, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
1999     Docteur Honoris Causa, József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary
1998     Docteur Honoris Causa, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
1992     Docteur Honoris Causa, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
1990     Docteur Honoris Causa, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
1989     Docteur Honoris Causa, Technical University, Budapest, Hungary

Employment

1964-Present  Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
 Professor, 1972; Associate Professor, 1967; and Assistant Professor, 1964
1964-Present Faculty Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1960-64  Research Staff, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY

Awards and Honors

2008    Priestley Medal from the American Chemical Society C&EN News Story   Priestley Award Address
2007     Langmuir Prize from the American Physical Society
2006     Remsen Award from the Maryland Section of the ACS
             Honorary Fellow, Cardiff University
2003     Cotton Medal, Texas A&M University
2002     National Medal of Science
2000     American Chemical Society Award for Creative Research in Homogeneous or Heterogeneous     Catalysis Linus Pauling Medal for Outstanding Accomplishment in Chemistry, American Chemical Society, Puget Sound, Portland and Oregon Section
1998     Wolf Prize in Chemistry
1997     Von Hippel Award, Materials Research Society
1995     Chemical Pioneer, American Institute of Chemists
1994     Adamson Award in Surface Chemistry, American Chemical Society
1990     Honorary Membership in Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1989     Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society
Senior Distinguished Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
 E.W. Mueller Award, University of Wisconsin
1986     Henry Albert Palladium Medal
1983     Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1982     Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  Distinguished Scholar for Exchange with China
1981     Colloid and Surface Chemistry Award, American Chemical Society
1979     Member National Academy of Sciences
1978     Miller Professorship, University of California, Berkeley
1977     Emmett Award, American Catalysis Society
1976     Kokes Award, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
  Elected Fellow, American Physical Society
1969     Guggenheim Fellowship
  Visiting Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 

Publications

Papers: More than 850 papers in Surface Science, Heterogeneous Catalysis, and  Solid State Chemistry
Textbooks: Introduction to Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Wiley-Interscience, 1994; Chemistry in Two Dimensions:  Surfaces, Cornell University Press, 1981;Principles of Surface Chemistry, Prentice Hall, 1972
Monograph     Adsorbed Monolayers on Solid Surfaces, Springer-Verlag, 1979

Ph.D. Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

Educated more than 115 Ph.D. and 200 Postdoctoral Fellowship students

Lectureships

2003 Pirkey Lecture, University of Texas, Austin
Faculty Research Lecturer, University of California Berkeley
2002  Shipley Lecturer, Clarkson University
2001 McDowell Lecturer, University of British Columbia
Hilldale Lecturer, The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sunner Lecturer, Lund University, Sweden
2000 Berzelius Lecturer, Stockholm, Sweden
Eyring Lecturer, University of Utah
ICI Distinguished Lecturer, University of Calgary, Canada
George Andrew Olah Lecturer, University of Southern California
Procter & Gamble Distinguished Lecturer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
1999  Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Lecture, University of Pennsylvania
Chermerda Lecturer, Pennsylvania State University
  Brian Bent Memorial Lecture, Columbia University
 Malcolm Dole Distinguished Lecturer, Northwestern University
1998 Second Mithchum E. Warren, Jr., Lecturer in Chemistry, Vanderbilt University
1997  KTH Lectures, Royal Technical University, Stockholm, Sweden
  Schuit Lecturer, University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
1994  Hinshelwood Lecturer, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  Linnett Lecturer, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
1992  Eyring Lecturer in Chemistry, Arizona State University, AZ
Smith Lecturer, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA
The 1991-92 Iddles Lecturer, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
1991 Bayer-Mobay Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, PA
1987 Kolthoff Lecturer, University of Minnesota, MN
G.N. Lewis Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1986  Musher Lecturer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
1984  Dorn Lecturer, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  Robbins Lecturer, Pomona College
  Plenary Lecture, International Congress of Catalysis, Berlin, Germany
1983  Centenary Lecturer, The Royal Society of Chemistry, London, England
  Lemieux Lecturer, University of Ottawa, Canada
1982  Dow Lecturer, Michigan State University, MI
1977  Baker Lecturer, Cornell University, NY
1972  Unilever Visiting Professor, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Chairmanships

2000 Pacifichem 2000 Conference
1999 Chair of the Committe on Faculty Awards (Academic Senate, UC Berkeley)
1998 Dallas ACS Conference
1990 Berkeley Conference, The Mechanisms of Heterogeneous Catalysis
1984 Second Berkeley Catalysis and Surface Science Conference
1983 Gordon Conference, “Catalysis”
1980 First Berkeley Catalysis and Surface Science Conference
1976 Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry of the American Chemical Society
1974 Irvine Solid State Physics Conference, "Chemical Processes at Surfaces"  with J.R. Schrieffer Berkeley Symposium, "The Frontiers of Surface Chemistry" (with W. Steele)
1973 Dallas ACS Symposium, "The Structure of Solid Surfaces and of Adsorbed Molecules" The Physical Electronics Conference
1970 Chicago ACS Symposium, “The Chemical Physics of Surfaces”
1968 International Conference, "The Structure and Chemistry of Solid Surfaces," Proceedings Editor
Other Duties
Senior Fellow and Board Member Loker Hydrocarbon Institute, University of Southern California
International Advisory Committee, Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of    Sciences
 Advisory Board for ETH Department of Materials, Zurich, Switzerland
Scientific Advisory Board, Institute of Biophysics, The Jackson Laboratory, University of Maine
 Scientific Advisory Board, Kluwer Academics Publishers
 Scientific Advisory Committee for Nanocenter at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Editor in Chief (with Sir John M. Thomas) of Catalysis Letter and Topics in Catalysis

Editorial Board Member of

  Catalysis Reviews
   Journal of American Chemical Society
  Tribology Letters
 
 
 

Memberships

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 American Chemical Society
 American Physical Society (Fellow)
 American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
 Cosmos Club, Washington DC
 National Academy of Science