founder of ‘green chemistry’
Yale researcher Paul T. Anastas was honored by the Council of Scientific Society
Presidents with its Leadership in Science award for founding the field of “green
chemistry.”
T H I S
Known as “the father of green chemistry” (he coined the term in
1991), Anastas has worked to develop the field over the past 17 years. He joined
the Yale faculty in 2007, where he serves as director of the Center for Green
Chemistry and Green Engineering, which advances research on, education about
and use of sustainable technologies.
The Council of Scientific Society Presidents is an organization of presidents,
presidents-elect and recent past presidents of about 60 scientific federations
and societies. The combined membership numbers well over 1.4 million scientists
and science educators in 150 disciplines. Each year the council confers its
Citation for Leadership and Achievement to individuals in honor of their special
achievements in support of scientific research.
Martin Apple, president of the council, says Anastas was honored “for
his strategic and bold vision and pioneering initiatives that created the global
green chemistry enterprise, for his breakthrough research that created economic
incentives to reduce industrial waste, for leading the U.S.A. to sponsor the
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge, and N.S.F. to create the technology
for a sustainable environment program, for founding the Green Chemistry Institute,
for preventing millions of kilograms of hazardous chemicals from entering the
environment, [and] for his 12 principles redirecting progress on chemical frontiers
to address key 21st century challenges.”
Anastas focuses his research on the design of safer chemicals, bio-based polymers
and new methodologies of chemical synthesis that are more efficient and less
hazardous to the environment. He has published nine books and numerous papers
on the interaction of science, technology and sustainability.
Before coming to Yale, Anastas was the director of the Green Chemistry Institute,
headquartered at the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C., where he
established 24 green chemistry chapters in countries around the world, including
China, Ethiopia, India, Japan and South Africa. In a prior position with the
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, he spent five years as
the principal supporter within the administration for governmental programs
related to the
environment.
Anastas holds joint appointments at Yale in the School of Forestry & Environmental
Studies, the Department of Chemistry,
and the Department of Environmental Engineering.
Among his numerous awards are the John Jeyes Medal from the Royal Society of
Chemistry, the H. John Heinz III Award for the Environment and the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’s Joseph Seifter Award, their highest scientific recognition.
Previous recipients of the award include Nobel laureates F. Sherwood Rowland
and Dudley Hirschbach, President of the National Academy of Sciences Bruce
Alberts and former Dean of Yale Engineering D. Alan Bromley.
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