Background
Stiefel, Edward Ira was born on January 3, 1942 in Brooklyn. Son of Harry and Blanche (Schneider) Stiefel.
Stiefel, Edward Ira was born on January 3, 1942 in Brooklyn. Son of Harry and Blanche (Schneider) Stiefel.
AB, New York University, 1963. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1967.
Assistant professor of chemistry, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1967-1974;
from investigator to senior investigator, Charles F. Kettering Research Laboratory, Yellow Springs, Ohio., 1974-1980;
consultant, Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Linden, New Jersey, 1979-1980;
research associate corporation research laboratory, Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Linden, New Jersey, 1980-1983;
senior research associate, group head bioinorganic and coordination chemistry, Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey, 1983-1986;
senior research associate, group head molecular and biological chemistry, Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey, 1986-1989;
senior research associate, science area leader biological and inorganic chemistry, Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey, 1989-1994;
scientific advisory, Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey, since 1994. Cons. John Wiley & Sons, 1972, Manhattan College, 1973, Garnett-McKeen Corporation, 1973-1976, GTE, 1976-1980, The Mitre Corporation, 1977-1980, photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation research in the People's Republic China NAS, 1979-1983. Adjunct Professor biological chemistry Wright State University School Medicine, Dayton, Ohio, 1978-1980.
Visiting lecturer department chemistry Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1983. Visiting professor of chemistry Columbia University, New York City, 1986. Member of advisory panelon nitrogen fixation USDA, 1983-1984, member presidential young investigatorsselection panel National Science Foundation, 1985, 1987, undergraduate education in chemistry panel,1988, commission on scholarly communication with the People's Republic China, 1979-1983, national organizing committee for Fourth International Conference Biorganic Chemistry, 1987-1989, organizing committee for Soviet-American seminars on environmentally related catalysis, 1985-1989, delegate, 1985.
Organizer mini symposium on biological nitrogen and sulfur cycles Fourth International Conference Bioinorganic Chemistry, Cambridge, Mass, 1989. Co-organizer mini symposium transition metal sulfide chemistry and catalysis XXIV Internat.Conf. on Coordination Chemistry, Athens, Greece, 1986. Vice chair Gordon Research Conference on Metals in Biology, 1992, chair, 1993.
Member of advisory panel on biotechnology National Science Foundation, 1991. Lecturer, presenter in field.
Presidential faculty fellows selection panel, 1995. 1st. Lieutenant United States Army, 1968. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Member American Chemical Society (chairman bioinorganic subdivision 1991, Trenton section speaker of year 1987, nomination and symposium committee inorganic chemistry division 1984-1986, organizer symposium on catalytic chemistry of transition metal sulfide systems 1983, member advisory board petroleum research fund since 1992, organizer symposium molybdenum enzymes, cofactors, and model systems 1992, various lectures), Society Biological Chemistry, New York Academy of Sciences, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Sigma Xi.
Married Jeannette Marie Musco, June 7, 1964. 1 child, Karen.