James C. Stevens
James Carl Stevens | |
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| Born | July 27, 1953 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | The College of Wooster (B.A. in Chemistry, 1975) Ohio State University (Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry, 1979) |
| Known for | The discovery and commercialization of a number of significant families of polymers in widespread commercial use today. |
| Awards | Perkin Medal (2006) US National Inventor of the Year (1994) Election to the US National Academy of Engineering (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | American Industrial Chemist |
| Institutions | The Dow Chemical Company |
| Thesis | Synthetic and Physical Inorganic chemistry of monomeric molecular oxygen complexes (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Daryle Busch |
James Carl Stevens (born July 27, 1953), a chemist, was the first Distinguished Fellow, at the Dow Chemical Company, retiring in January 2015. His area of expertise is organometallic chemistry and his primary field of research is in the area of polyolefin catalysis, particularly in the area of polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene/styrene copolymers, and the combinatorial discovery of organometallic single-site catalysts. Stevens major contributions have come in the discovery and commercial implementation of single-site polyolefin catalysts. He invented and led the commercialization of constrained geometry catalyst for the polymerization of olefins. These have been commercialized by Dow as a number of polymers, elastomers and plostomers.
Stevens led efforts in the development of photovoltaic materials based on earth abundant elements prior to his retirement.