Julius Rebek Jr.#
| Membership Number: | 2308 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2005 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996 - present Director, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
- 1991 - 1996 Camille Dreyfus Prof. of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- 1989 - 1991 Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- 1980 - 1989 Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- 1976 - 1979 Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- 1970 - 1976 Assistant Professor, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Fields of Scholarship
- Expert on molecular self-assembly
- Synthetic protein surface mimetics
Honours and Awards
- 2005 European Academy of Science (Academia Europaea) Member
- 2005 Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts; Modena, Italy
- 2005 Medal of the Academy of Sciences; Prague, Czech Republic
- 2004 Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry (American Chemical Society)
- 2002 Chemical Pioneer Award (American Institute of Chemists)
- 2001 Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1997 James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry (American Chemical Society)
- 1996 MERIT Award (National Institutes of Health)
- 1994 National Academy of Science
- 1993 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1991 A.C. Cope Scholar Award
- 1990 Myron L. Bender and Muriel S. Bender Distinguished Summer Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Northwestern University
- 1986 Guggenheim Fellow
- 1981 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
- 1976 - 1978 A.P. Sloan Fellow
- 1976 - 1974 Eli Lilly Award
- 1967 - 1970 National Science Foundation pre-doctoral fellow
