Talk:George M. Whitesides

Priestly Award
"...Whitesides is scheduled to receive the Priestley Medal, the highest honor conferred by the ACS, in 2007."
 * This was written 15-June-2006. Will an editor please update the sentence to use past tense and cite this source?  Thanks, GChriss &lt;always listening&gt;  &lt;c&gt; 23:24, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Tense corrected and awards placed in chronological order. That suggested citation would be more properly placed at the Priestley Medal entry, not here.PBarak 00:57, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Dead link
Reference no. 5 - "1000 Most Cited Chemists 1981-1997" (http://pcb4122.univ-lemans.fr/1000chimistes.html) is not found anymore (404). It should be deleted, or better: replaced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.109.175.99 (talk) 10:44, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

The corrected url is (http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp/web-mirrors/armel/www.cristal.org/1000chimistes.html) Oceanflynn (talk) 15:38, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Boards of Directors
According to Bloomberg Business Whitesides has co-founded a number of companies and is on the Board of Directors of many others. I will try to add some of this content into the main article.Oceanflynn (talk) 15:38, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

""Dr. George M. Whitesides, Ph.D. is Co-Founder and Technical Advisor of MC10, Inc. Dr. Whitesides serves as Chairman of the Board and Head of Scientific Advisory Board of Nano Terra, Inc. He Co-founded Arsenal Medical, Inc. and Nano Terra, Inc. in 2005. He is Co-Founder of 480 Biomedical, Inc. He Co-founded Claros Diagnostics, Inc. in 2004. From 1986 to 2004, Dr. Whitesides was Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. He was Co-Founded Pathwork Diagnostics, Inc. in 2002. He serves as the Co-Chairman and Head of Science Advisory Board at Nano Terra, Inc. Dr. Whitesides is the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard University since 2004. Dr. Whitesides joined Harvard’s Department of Chemistry in 1982 and served as Department Chairman from 1986 to 1989. He was a Member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1982. In the early 80s, Dr. Whitesides co-founded biotechnology company Genzyme. In 1993 he co-founded GelTex Pharmaceuticals, which was acquired by Genzyme for $1.2 billion; and in 1996, he co-founded Theravance Inc., which went public in 2004. He Co-Founded Surface Logix, Inc. in 1999. He is a co-founder of companies with a combined market capitalization of over $20 billion. His recent ventures include Surface Logix and WMR Biomedical. Dr. Whitesides has held advisory positions on the National Research Council, National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Dr. Whitesides serves as a Member of Strategic Advisory Board of NGP Energy Technology Partners II, L.P and NGP Energy Technology Partners. He serves as a Director of Arsenal Medical, Inc. He has been a Director of Theravance Biopharma, Inc. since October 2013 and Rohm and Haas Company since February 7, 2005. He serves as Member of Scientific Advisory Board at Archemix Corp. and Claros Diagnostics, Inc. He was employee at Dexter Corporation. He serves as Member of Editorial Advisory Board of Xconomy, Inc. and Arsenal Biomedical, Inc. He served as a Director of Theravance Inc. since 1996 until June 2, 2014, Life Technologies Inc. since April 1998 and AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since 1981. He served as a Director of Pathwork Diagnostics, Inc. and HRL Laboratories, LLC. He served as Director and Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Lockheed Martin Advanced Energy Storage, LLC, Surface Logix, Inc. and Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Whitesides was a Board Member of Predicant Biosciences, Hughes Research Laboratories, and several other companies. His present research interests include materials science, biophysics, surface science, polyvalency, microfluidics, optics, self-assembly, micro fabrication, nanotechnology, and cell surface biochemistry. He was a faculty member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1964 to 1982. Mr. Whitesides has been awarded the National Medal of Science and the Kyoto Prize in 1998. He holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1964 and an A.B. from Harvard University in 1960.""

- Bloomberg Business

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