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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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