Organic Chemistry, 3rd Edition-Test Bank

Biography

Professor Michael B. Smith was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1946 and moved to Madison Heights, Virginia in 1957, the place he attended highschool at Amherst County Extreme School. He obtained an A.A. from Ferrum School in 1967 and a B.S. in chemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1969. After working for 3 years on the Newport Data Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. in Newport Data VA as an analytical chemist, he entered graduate school at Purdue School. He obtained a Ph.D. in Organic chemistry in 1977, beneath the auspices of Professor Joe Wolinsky. Professor Smith spent one 12 months as a college evaluation affiliate on the Arizona State School with Professor G. Robert Pettit, engaged on the isolation of cytotoxic concepts from crops and sponges. He spent a second 12 months of postdoctoral work with Professor Sidney M. Hecht on the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how, engaged on the synthesis of bleomycin A2. Professor Smith began his tutorial career on the School of Connecticut in 1979, the place he achieved the rank of professor of chemistry. In 1986 he spent a sabbatical go away throughout the laboratories of Professor Leon Ghosez, on the Université Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, as a visiting professor. He retired as a full professor from the School of Connecticut on January 1, 2017, and is in the intervening time pursuing his pursuits as an creator.