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Mallinckrodt Building, Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St.
Contact Helen Schwickrath, 617/496-8190 or helen@chemistry.harvard.edu
George Kistiakowsky was born November 18, 1900, in Kiev, Ukraine to an academic family. He left Russia in 1921 after an exciting military period with the White Russian forces. His studies of chemistry in Berlin culminated with the Ph.D. degree under the direction of Professor Max Bodenstein. He came to Princeton in 1926 where his distinction as a physical chemist was founded. He moved to Harvard in 1930. A broad range of fundamental problems in thermochemistry, especially in the kinetics of chemical reactions, was treated by him in a masterful manner.
In the war years, 1940-46, his expertise in the fundamentals of explosives led to making him director of the explosives division of the National Defense Research Committee. He became chief of the explosives division of the Los Alamos Laboratory in 1944. After returning to Harvard and serving as department chairman from 1947-50, he continued active involvement with government affairs. He took a leave of absence from 1959-61 to serve as Special Assistant for Science and Technology for President Eisenhower. These years are recorded in his book entitled A Scientist in the White House. He was Vice President of the National Academy of Sciences from 1965-73. From the late sixties until his death in 1982, he worked intensively for nuclear disarmament, serving as chairman of the Council for a Livable World from 1977-82. His numerous medals and awards reflected his distinction in science and public affairs.
G. B. KISTIAKOWSKY LECTURERS
1971 George B. Kistiakowsky
1972 Gerhard Herzberg
1973 Harold S. Johnson
1975 John C. Polanyi
1976 George C. Pimentel
1977 Frederick Kaufman
1978 Clyde A. Hutchison, Jr.
1979 David Turner
1980 Benjamin Widom
1980 Herbert S. Gutowsky
1983 Sir David Bates
1984 John S. Waugh
1985 Eizi Hirota
1986 John Pople
1988 J. H. van der Waals
1989 Yuan T. Lee
1990 Berni Adler
1991 John Fenn
1992 W. Carl Lineberger
1993 Louis E. Brus
1994 William H. Miller
1996 Richard N. Zare
1997 Rudolph A. Marcus
1998 Richard E. Smalley
1999 Harry B. Gray
2000 Graham R. Fleming
2001 Ahmed H. Zewail
2002 David C. Clary
2005 Mostafa A. El-Sayed
2006 David Chandler
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