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Stephen
L. Buchwald was born (1955), raised and received his precollege education
in Bloomington, Indiana. He received his Sc.B. degree, Magna Cum Laude,
in chemistry, from Brown University in 1977. During his undergraduate
years he worked in the laboratories of Professors Kathlyn A. Parker and
David E. Cane at Brown University and Professor Gilbert Stork at Columbia
University.
He entered Harvard University as a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in 1977 and received his Ph.D. in 1982. His thesis work, under the supervision of Professor Jeremy R. Knowles, concerned the mechanism of phosphoryl transfer reactions in chemistry and biochemistry.
In early 1982 he took up a position as a Myron A. Bantrell postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology where he worked in the laboratory of Professor Robert H. Grubbs. His work at Caltech concerned the study of titanocene methylenes as reagents in organic synthesis. During this time he was also involved in work on the mechanism of Ziegler-Natta polymerization.
In 1984 he began as an assistant professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was promoted to the position of associate professor in 1989 and to Professor in 1993. He was named the Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry in January of 1997. During his time at MIT he has received numerous honors, including the Harold Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award of MIT, an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, the 2000 Award in Organometallic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society, and a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health. He has also been the recipient of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Distinguished Achievement Award and the CAS Science Spotlight Award (both received in 2005), and the American Chemical Society's Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry as well as the Siegfried Medal Award in Chemical Methods which Impact Process Chemistry (both received in 2006).
He is the coauthor of over 290 published or accepted papers and 37 issued patents. He serves as a consultant to a number of companies.
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