Edward I. Solomon
Edward I. Solomon | |
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| Born | Edward Ira Solomon 1946 (age 78–79) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute B.S. (1968) Princeton University Ph.D. (1972) |
| Spouse | Darlene Solomon |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bioinorganic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Theoretical Chemistry |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Thesis | The Jahn-Teller Effect in the Orbital Triplet Excited States of Octahedral Manganese(II) (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald S. McClure |
| Other academic advisors | Carl J. Ballhausen, Harry B. Gray |
| Doctoral students | Serena DeBeer, Darlene Joy Spira, Andrew Gewirth, Peng Chen, Daniel Gamelin, Abhishek Dey |
| Other notable students | Frank Neese, Thomas Brunold, James Penner-Hahn |
| Website | web |
Edward I. Solomon (born 1946) is the Monroe E. Spaght Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. He is an elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been profiled in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been a longtime collaborator with many scientists, including his colleague at Stanford University Keith Hodgson for the study of metalloenzyme active sites by x-ray spectroscopy, along with the synthetic chemists Richard H. Holm, Stephen J. Lippard, Lawrence Que Jr. and Kenneth D. Karlin.