Date:2/17/2011

hip at the University of Florida in 1977. From 1978 until 1984 he was a research associate at the Polish Academy of Sciences. After spending a year at the University of Paris, Matyjaszewski came to Carnegie Mellon in 1985 and was appointed the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences in 1998. While at Carnegie Mellon, Matyjaszewski founded the Center for Macromolecular Engineering, served as head of the Department of Chemistry from 1994 to 1998, and was named a University Professor in 2004. The title of University Professor is the highest distinction a faculty member can achieve at CMU.

Matyjaszewski is the second Carnegie Mellon professor to receive a Wolf Prize. The late John Pople received the 1992 Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to theoretical chemistry. Pople went on to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998.

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Contact: Jocelyn Duffy jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu 412-268-9982 Carnegie Mellon University Source:Eurekalert

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