Professor Tobin J. Marks, was awarded the 2017 Harvey Prize in Science and Technology and has been elected to the Italian Academy of Sciences, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, for his ground-breaking research, of both fundamental and practical significance, in the areas of catalysis, organo-f-element chemistry, electronic and photonic materials, and coordination chemistry, which have strongly impacted contemporary chemical science.

About Harvey Prize
The Harvey Prize is awarded annually in a variety of disciplines within the categories of Science & Technology and Human Health.

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About the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Founded in 1603, its illustrious members include Galileo Galilei, Louis Pasteur, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Werner Heisenberg, and others, and, more recently, American chemists, NU alumnus Harry Gray of Caltech as well as Dick Zare of Stanford.

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