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Milton
Orchin
Emeritus Distinguished Service Professor,
Chemistry
PhD, The Ohio State University, 1939
Hon. Doctor of Science, University Cincinnati, 1984
Address:
Department of Chemistry
P.O.Box 21072
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172
phone:
513-556-9253
fax: 513-556-9239
orchinm@email.uc.edu
http://www.che.uc.edu/fac_staff/orchin.html
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Biography:
Milton Orchin received his B.S and M.S.degrees from The Ohio State University and was the first graduate student to sign on with Professor Melvin S Newman who had in 1937, just arrived at The Ohio State University. Newman's dedication to excellence in laboratory work was to become a life time model. Orchin's graduate work involved the synthesis of polycyclic aromatic compounds with possible carcinogenic activity. After
receiving his Ph.D. degree he took a position with the U.S.Food and Drug
administration in Cincinnati but left there to become in 1943 (after a
short stint with the Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, MD) Chief of
the Organic Section of the Synthetic Fuels Division, U.S.Bureau of Mines,
in Pittsburgh, PA. After 10 years, Orchin left the Bureau to return to
Cincinnati to become an Associate Professor of Applied Science at the
University of Cincinnati and subsequently Professor and Head of the
Department of Chemistry in 1956, serving in that capacity until 1962. He
became Director of the Hoke S. Greene Laboratory of Catalysis when that
Laboratory was established in the Department of Chemistry in 1970. Orchin was named Emeritus Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry in 1981.
His pedagogical interests were stimulated by his collaboration with the
late Professor H.H. Jaffe with whom he published six books covering the
topics of ultraviolet spectroscopy, symmetry, and molecular orbital
theory. His research interests are in catalysis using organometal carbonyl
complexes and the solution chemistry of these complexes.
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