4/13/01

Roy Summerford

AUBURN'S KOSOLAPOFF WINNER TO SPEAK ON SOLAR ENERGY

AUBURN -- Harry B. Gray, the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, will present the annual G.W. Kosolapoff Award Lecture at Auburn University on Tuesday, April 17.

The 8 p.m., lecture in the Chemistry Building, Room 151, is titled, "Clean Fuel from Solar Photochemistry." A second lecture, "Electron Tunneling Through Water and Proteins" will be presented at the Chemistry Building in Room 134 at 3:45 p.m on Wednesday.

Gray was selected to receive this Award by the Auburn Section of the American Chemical Society. The award and lecture series were established 16 years ago to honor G.W. Kosolapoff, an internationally known chemist who was prominent in the early history of the Chemistry Department at Auburn.

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CONTACT: Howard Hargis, Department of Chemistry: 334/844-4043.