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Sir John Meurig Thomas, a visiting professor of microscopy and catalysis in the USC NanoCenter, will deliver a distinguished lecture sponsored by the USC College of Arts and Sciences and the USC NanoCenter April 6.
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The lecture, titled, "The Genius of Michael Faraday," will begin at 4 p.m. in the Moore School of Business Lumpkin Auditorium, located on the eighth floor of the BA Building. A reception will begin at 5:15 p.m. outside Lumpkin Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
Thomas is honorary professor of solid-state chemistry in the Department of Materials Science at Cambridge University. He once occupied the chair of chemistry created for scientist Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
Thomas has authored more than 1,000 research papers and holds 12 patents. He has served as president of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is recipient of the Davy Medal and the Rutherford Lectureship of the Royal Society, the Messel Gold Medal of the Society of Chemical Industry, and the Willard Gibbs Gold Medal, and he was the first recipient of the Award for Creative Research in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis from the American Chemical Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1991, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his services to chemistry and the popularization of science.
In recognition of his contributions to geochemistry, a new mineral--meurigate--was named in his honor.
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