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为倡导学术创新、传播学术思想、强化学术氛围，我校以西北大学原校长、中国古脊椎动物学的开拓者和奠基者杨钟健先生名字命名的“杨钟健学术讲座”第七十八讲即将举行，现将具体情况通知如下：

讲座题目：Cycloadditions via TMM-PdL₂ Intermediates New Strategies for Asymmetric Induction and Total Synthesis

主讲嘉宾：Barry M. Trost美国科学院院士

讲座时间：2017年9月14日（周四）上午11:00

讲座地点：化学与材料科学学院1005报告厅

主办单位：科技处、西北大学科协

承办单位：化学与材料科学学院

欢迎各位老师和同学踊跃参加！

科技处、西北大学科协、化学与材料科学学院

2017年9月8日

Barry M. Trost院士简介：

Professor Barry M. Trost was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1941 where he began his university training at the University of Pennsylvania (BA, 1962), he obtained a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry just three years later at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1965). He directly moved to the University of Wisconsin where he was promoted to Professor of Chemistry in 1969 and subsequently became the Vilas Research Professor in 1982. He joined the faculty at Stanford as Professor of Chemistry in 1987 and became Tamaki Professor of Humanities and Sciences in 1990.In recognition of his many contributions, Professor Trost has received a number of awards, including the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1977), the ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (1981), the Baekeland Award (1981),), Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (1989), Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Essential Oils and Related Products (1990), the Dr. Paul Janssen Prize (1990), the ASSU Graduate Teaching Award (1991), Bing Teaching Award (1993), the ACS Roger Adams Award (1995), the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (1998), the Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods (1999), the Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium Elsevier Award (2000), the Nichols Medal (2000), the Yamada Prize (2001), the ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry (2002), the ACS Cope Award (2004), the John Scott Award of the city of Philadelphia (2004), Thomson Scientific Laureate (2007), the Nagoya Medal (2008), Israel Chemical Society Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry Award (2013), the RyojiNoyori Prize (2013),  the German Chemical Society’s August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann Denkmuenze (2014), the International Precious Metal Institute Junichiro Tanaka Distinguished Achievement Award (2014), Tetrahedron Prize (2014), and the Linus Pauling Medal (2015). Professor Trost has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Sciences (1992) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1990). He has published two books and over 975 scientific articles.