John D. Corbett
Inorganic Solid-State Chemistry
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John D. Corbett, distinguished professor of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, received his B.S. and Ph.D. (1952) from the University of
Washington. At Iowa State he has served as chairman of the
chemistry department and as division chief and program director in
the Ames Laboratory. Elsewhere, he has served as visiting professor
at the Max-Planck-Institut, Stuttgart, the Technical University of
Denmark, and Oxford and Justus-Liebig Universities. He is a Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Among
his honors are the ACS Awards in Inorganic Chemistry and in
Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry, a
Senior Scientist Award from the A. v. Humboldt Foundation, two DOE
Awards for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishments and Sustained
Research in Materials Chemistry, and election to the National
Academy of Sciences.
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