Born 1942; B. A. Reed College (1964); Ph. D. Northwestern University (1968); Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1971-1973); Miller Research Professor (1977-1978, 1996, 2004); Guggenheim Fellow (1980-1981); Selected as one of the "Technology 100, 1981" by Technology Magazine; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (1984); DOE Ernest O. Lawrence Award (1984); Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Technology Transfer award (1988, 1991); Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists (1992); American Chemical Society Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry (1994); Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (1997); Elected to National Academy of Sciences (1997); Basolo Medal, Northwestern University (1997); Max-Planck-Institut fur Strahlenchemie "Frontiers in Biological Chemistry" Award (1997); Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001); Reed College Howard Vollum Award (2002); ACS Auburn Section G. M. Kosolapoff Award (2004); Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic Chemistry (2005); Joe L. Franklin Memorial Lectureship (2006); Paulo Fasella Lectureship (2006); UC Berkeley Chancellor's Professor, (2007-).