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S E I N F E L D
BIOGRAPHY

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BS, University of Rochester, 1964
PhD, Princeton University, 1967


seinfeld@caltech.edu
     
   

John H. Seinfeld was born in Elmira, New York and received a BS from the University of Rochester in 1964 and a PhD from Princeton University in 1967. Both degrees are in Chemical Engineering. He joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology in 1967. In 1973 he was appointed Executive Officer for Chemical Engineering and in 1980 he became Louis E. Nohl Professor. In 1990 he was appointed Chairman of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science. Professor Seinfeld is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Seinfeld has received the 1970 Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council; a 1972 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Grant; the American Society for Engineering Education's Curtis W. McGraw Award (1976) and George Westinghouse Award (1987); the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Allan P. Colburn Award (1976), Institute Lectureship (1980), and William H. Walker Award (1986). He received the 1980 NASA Public Service Award and a Special Creativity Award from the National Science Foundation. He received the 1988 Service Through Chemistry Award of the Orange County Section of the American Chemical Society. In 1986 he was elected a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He is the recipient of the 1993 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology. He was President of the American Association for Aerosol Research.

Professor Seinfeld has delivered the Allan P. Colburn Lecture at the University of Delaware; the Camille and Henry Dreyfus and Warren K. Lewis Lectures at MIT; the Donald L. Katz Lecture at the University of Michigan; the Reilly Lecture at the University of Notre Dame; the Stanley Katz Lecture at City University of New York; the Dean's Distinguished Lecture at the University of Rochester; the Warren L. McCabe Lecture at North Carolina State University; the Union Carbide Lecture at State University of New York at Buffalo; the Van Winkle Lecture at the University of Texas; and the Bicentennial Commemoration Lecture at Louisiana State University. He was the Lapidus Distinguished Visitor at Princeton University; the Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer at the University of Iowa; the David M. Mason Lecturer at Stanford University; the Julian C. Smith Lecturer at Cornell University; a Merck Distinguished Lecturer at Rutgers University; the Henske Distinguished Lecturer at Yale University; the Centennial Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania; the Miles Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh; the Kelly Lecturer at Purdue University; the Distinguished Research Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University; the Berkeley Lecturer at the University of California; a Leermakers Lecturer at Wesleyan University; a Merck, Sharp, & Dohme Lecturer at the University of Puerto Rico; and a Hess Lecturer at the University of Virginia. He is currently a 1998-9 Sigma Xi Lecturer. He received the University of Rochester's Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1989.

Professor Seinfeld has served on the National Research Council's panels on the Relationship of Emissions to Ambient Air Quality, Atmospheric Chemistry, and Issues in the Prevention of Significant Deterioration of Air Quality and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Committee on Chemical Engineering Frontiers. He was chairman of the NASA Working Group on Scientific Research Objectives in Tropospheric Pollution and a member of the State of California Air Resources Board Research Screening Committee, the EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, and the NASA Advisory Council. He has served as chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Applied Science at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He was chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry. Professor Seinfeld served as chairman of the National Research Council Committee on Tropospheric Ozone Formation and Measurement and as Chairman of the NRC Panel on Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Climate.
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