Nicholas J. TurroProfessor

Nicholas J. Turro is the William P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University where he has been since 1964. He also holds professorships at the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering. He has been widely recognized by national and international awards as a leader and pioneer in the area of supramolecular chemistry, organic photochemistry, molecular spectroscopy, host-guest chemistry and magnetic effects on photochemical reactions. He has sponsored the PhD thesis of 70 students, has mentored 200 postdocs. Over 100 undergraduates have been trained in research under his supervision. He is the author of two textbooks on Organic Photochemistry, which is considered the “bible” of the field for several generations by organic photochemists since 1965. He has published over 900 research papers and has been selected as one of the most highly cited chemists for the past two decades. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.