Stephen Buchwald

Stephen L. Buchwald received his Sc.B. from Brown University (1977), where he worked with Kathlyn A. Parker and David E. Cane, as well as Professor Gilbert Stork at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1982 with Jeremy R. Knowles, working on the mechanism of phosphoryl transfer. He did postdoctoral work at Caltech with Robert H. Grubbs studying titanocene methylenes as reagents in organic synthesis and the mechanism of Ziegler-Natta polymerization. In 1984, he began at MIT, where he is now the Camille Dreyfus Professor. He has received numerous honors, including the 2013 Arthur C. Cope Award and the 2019 Roger Adams Award (ACS), and the 2019 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. He was honored with the Inaugural Akira Suzuki Award from the ICReDD, Hokkaido University in 2021. In 2022, he received the Paul Karrar Gold Medal from the University of Zürich. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Science