Wednesday, November 28, 2018
The UCI Department of Chemistry congratulates Fillmore Freeman, Professor of Chemistry, and John Chaput, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemistry, on being named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Fillmore Freeman, Professor of Chemistry, is being honored for distinguished contributions to the fields of computational quantum chemistry, heteroatom chemistry, oxidation chemistry and reaction mechanisms.
- John Chaput, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemistry, is being honored for distinguished contributions to the field of chemical biology, particularly for the development of engineered polymerases that enable the evolution of artificial genetic polymers.