Background
Hutchison,, Clyde Allen was born on May 5, 1913 in Alliance, Ohio, United States. Son of Clyde Allen and Bessie Gertrude (Bicksler) Hutchison.
Hutchison,, Clyde Allen was born on May 5, 1913 in Alliance, Ohio, United States. Son of Clyde Allen and Bessie Gertrude (Bicksler) Hutchison.
Bachelor, Cedarville College, 1933. Doctor of Science (honorary), Cedarville College, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1937.
National Research Council postdoctoral fellow Columbia University, New York City, 1937-1938, research associate, 1938-1939, SAM Laboratories, New York City, 1943-1945. Assistant professor University Buffalo, 1939-1945. Research associate Manhattan project U.Va., Charlottesville, 1942-1943.
Member faculty University Chicago, from 1945, assistant professor chemistry Enrico Fermi Institute, 1945-1948, assistant professor department chemistry and Enrico Fermi Institute, 1948-1950, associate professor, 1950-1954, professor, 1954-1963, chairman department chemistry, 1959-1962, Carl William Eisendrath professor, 1963-1969, Carl William Eisendrath Distinguished Service professor, 1969-1983, Carl William Eisendrath Distinguished Service professor emeritus, 1983—2005. Member advisory panel in chemistry National Science Foundation, 1960-1963. Board directors Ohio State University Research Foundation, Columbus, 1963-1968.
Member chemistry research evaluation panel United States Air Force Office Science Research, 1966-1970. Member advisory panel for inorganic materials division Institute Materials Research, National Bureau Standards, 1968-1970. Member corporation visiting committee department chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1971-1972.
Member National Research Council Evaluation Panel for Physical Chemistry, 1977-1980. Lecturer various organizations, 1959-1982. Consultant Los Alamos Science Laboratory, 1953-1962, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, 1946-1983.
Member advisory panel Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brookhaven, New York, 1960-1963, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1963-1966. Visiting lecturer Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1975, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1986.
Fellow American Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society (council 1967, division chairman 1965). Member National Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi.
Married Sarah Jane West, December 29, 1937. Children: Clyde Allen Hutchison III, Sarah Jane, Robert West.