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Chemical Science Division’s Don Tilley Named ACS Fellow

Don Tilley was named by the American Chemical Society to the 2014 class of ACS Fellows for his scientific contributions in new transformations and compounds for transition metals.
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Researchers Characterize Quantum Vortices
Research into Heavy Metals Affecting the Brain
F. Dean Toste Wins 2014 “Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award”

Faculty Scientist F. Dean Toste has been given the “Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award” for “Introduction of Concepts and Catalysts for Organic Synthesis, including those based on Homogeneous Gold Catalysis and Chiral Anion Catalysis.”
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Research Into Soot and Cleaner Fuels
Chemical Scientist Robert Bergman Wins Welch Award

Berkeley Lab Chemical Scientist Robert Bergman is the 2014 recipient of the Welch Award in Chemical Research for his pioneering work in alkane activation and mechanisms of organometallic reactions.
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Lab Scientist Rebecca Abergel Receives DOE Early Career Award

Rebecca Abergel selected by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science to receive significant funding for research as part of DOE’s Early Career Research Program.
Chemists Dean Toste and Gabor Somorjai Research Flow Reactor Chemistry

Chemists Dean Toste and Gabor Somorjai use an Infrared Technique at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source to tightly focus beams of infrared and x-ray light to observe catalytic reactions within 15 microns
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Norman Edelstein named AAAS Fellow

Norman Edelstein has been named AAAS Fellow for his scientific contributions to inorganic chemistry.
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Lab Scientist John Hartwig Wins Lecturship Award
Christopher Chang Researches Copper on the Brain

Christopher Chang and his research group at UC Berkeley have developed a series of fluorescent probes for molecular imaging of copper in the brain.
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Ergonomics at the Lab has a new partnership

Thorsten Weber teams up with Melanie Alexandre to prevent ergonomic injuries.
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Rebecca Abergel Named One of the Top 10 Innovators Under 35 by MIT

Faculty Scientist Rebecca Abergel with Chemical Sciences, has been named one of the top 10 innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review, French edition.
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