Catherine J. Murphy

Catherine J. Murphy (born 1964) is an American chemist and materials scientist, and is the Larry Faulkner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The first woman to serve as the head of the department of chemistry at UIUC, Murphy is known for her work on nanomaterials, specifically the seed-mediated synthesis of gold nanorods of controlled aspect ratio. She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.

Catherine Jones Murphy
Born1964 (age 5960)
Morris Plains, New Jersey
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.S. 1986)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph. D. 1990)
California Institute of Technology (Post-Doc, 1990–1993)
Known forGold Nanorods
AwardsNational Science Foundation CAREER Award
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award
Cottrell Scholar Award
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow of the American Chemical Society
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Nanotechnology, Chemical biology, Physical chemistry, Environmental chemistry,
InstitutionsUniversity of South Carolina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Amoco Research Center (summer internship)
Doctoral advisorArthur B. Ellis
Other academic advisorsThomas B. Rauchfuss, Jacqueline Barton
Websitefaculty.scs.illinois.edu/murphy/index.shtml
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