Atwood

Jerry Atwood wins research award

Jerry L. Atwood, Curators' Professor of Chemistry and chairman of the UM-Columbia Department of Chemistry since 1994, is the winner of the UM System's 2000 Presidential Award for Research and Creativity.

This award, which includes a $15,000 stipend, is given to a faculty member with a sustained record of nationally and internationally prominent research or creativity who has been a full-time faculty member for at least five years. Each campus submits one nominee.

Atwood is internationally acclaimed for his innovative, cutting-edge research. The author of nearly 600 scientific papers, a recent citation survey ranked him 33rd out of 627,871 chemists who published papers between 1981 and 1996.

Atwood's recent focus has been on molecules called calixarenes. In a spherical form such molecules could serve as "containers" for other substances, such as medicines. Atwood recently discovered a way to create miniscule tubes using calixarenes. The tubes have potential for use as conductors in microchips and as building blocks for superstrong materials, among many other applications.

Atwood founded two journals,Supramolecular Chemistry, which he edits, and the Journal of Inclusion Phenomena. He is associate editor of Chemical Communication. He also was the senior editor of an 11-volume work Comprehensive Supramolecular Chemistry.

Atwood earned a bachelor's degree from Southwest Missouri State University in 1964 and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1968.

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