Background
Bunnett, Joseph Frederick was born on November 26, 1921 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Son of Joseph and Louise Helen (Boulan) Bunnett.
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Joseph Frederick Bunnett
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Joseph Frederick Bunnett, American Chemist, educator. Fulbright scholar U. College, London, 1949-1950, U. Munich, 1960-1961, Guggenheim fellow U. Munich, 1960-1961; recipient James Flack Norris award in Physical Organic Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 1992; named honorary member Societa Chimica Italiana.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Reed College, 1942; Doctor of Philosophy, University Rochester, 1945.
Career
Member faculty, Reed College, 1946-1952;
Member faculty, U. North Carolina, 1952-1958;
member of faculty, Brown U., 1958-1966;
professor of chemistry, Brown U., 1959-1966;
department chairman, Brown U., 1961-1964;
professor of chemistry, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1966-1991;
professor emeritus, University of California at Santa Cruz. Erskine visiting fellow U. Canterbury, New Zealand, 1967. Visiting professor U. Washington, 1956, U. Wurzburg, Germany, 1974, U. Bologna, Italy, 1988.
Research fellow Japan Society for Promotion of Science, 1979. Lady Davis visiting professor Hebrew U., Jerusalem, Israel, 1981. Member of advisory county department chemistry Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1985-1989.
Member National Research Council commission on alternative chemical demilitarization technologies, 1992-1993. Member Department Defense panel on Gulf War Health Effects, 1993-1994. Co-chairman peer review committee Russian-American Joint Evaluation Program, 1995-1997.
Co-chairman North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Research Workshop on Chemical Problems Associated with Old Arsenical and Mustard Munitions, Lodz, Poland,1996.
Achievements
Membership
Trustee Reed College, 1970-1997, trustee emeritus, since 1997. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Chemical Society (editor journal Accounts of Chemical Research 1966-1986), Royal Society Chemistry (London), International Union Pure and Applied Chemistry (chairman commission physical organic chemistry 1978-1983, secretary organic chemistry division 1981-1983, vice president 1983-1985, president 1985-1987, chairman task force on science aspects of destruction of chemical warfare agents 1991-1995, Chairman of Commission on chemical weapon destruction1995-), Pharmaceutical Society Japan (honorary), Academy Gioenia (U. Catania, honorary), Sociedad Argentina de Investigaciones en Quimica Organica (honorary).
Connections
Married Sara Anne Telfer, August 22,1942. Children— Alfred Boulan, David Telfer, Peter Sylvester (dec.Sept.
