Bruce E. Bursten received his SB from the University of Chicago, his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was an NSF postdoc at Texas A&M. He joined the faculty of Ohio State University as Professor of Chemistry and later as Chair. Bursten then moved to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. While President of the ACS he founded the ACS Fellows Program. He is presently Provost, Senior Vice President and Professor of Chemistry at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Retired Chair of the Section on Chemistry of the AAAS. He is an internationally recognized authority in the correlation of theoretical and experimental electronic structural data with the bonding and reactivity of heavy element-containing molecules. The presentation will conclude with the latest results on the newly established capability of non-aqueous inert atmosphere actinide electrochemistry at Florida State University.

Calculating fellow: A theoretical tribute to Bruce Bursten

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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