A tribute to Prof. William E. McEwen on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday

✍ Scribed by Alfred Schmidpeter; Shigeru Oae; Louis D. Quin

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 108 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1042-7163
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-1071(1997)8:5<371::aid-hc1>3.0.co;2-c

✦ Synopsis

A Tribute to Prof. William E. McEwen on the Occasion of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday Bill McEwen celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday on 13 January 1997. Heteroatom Chemistry takes great pleasure in dedicating this and the following special issues to him on this auspicious occasion. Many chemists from around the world have prepared research articles to be placed in these special issues, honoring their distinguished colleague, and the undersigned group of associates assisting with the Journal has prepared this summary of his career and many accomplishments as its own tribute to him. Bill received both his A.B. (1944) and Ph.D. (1947) degrees from Columbia University. Following service at the Oak Ridge Laboratory during World War II, he entered the academic world with an appointment at the University of Kansas, achieving the rank of professor in 1957. Five years later, Bill accepted a call from the University of Massachusetts