Catherine Jones Murphy | |
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| Born | 1964 (age 60–61) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.S. 1986) University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph. D. 1990) California Institute of Technology (Post-Doc, 1990–1993) |
| Known for | Gold Nanorods |
| Awards | National Science Foundation CAREER Award Alfred P. Sloan Fellow Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award Cottrell Scholar Award Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow of the American Chemical Society Member of the National Academy of Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Nanotechnology, Chemical biology, Physical chemistry, Environmental chemistry, |
| Institutions | University of South Carolina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Amoco Research Center (summer internship) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur B. Ellis |
| Other academic advisors | Thomas B. Rauchfuss, Jacqueline Barton |
| Website | faculty |
Catherine J. Murphy (born 1964) is an American chemist and materials scientist, and is the Larry Faulkner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).[1] The first woman to serve as the head of the department of chemistry at UIUC,[2] Murphy is known for her work on nanomaterials, specifically the seed-mediated synthesis of gold nanorods of controlled aspect ratio.[3] She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[4] National Academy of Sciences,[5] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.[6]
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