Background
COLLMAN, James was born on October 31, 1932 in Beatrice, Nebraska, United States. Son of Perry G. Collman and Frances Dorothy Palmer.
COLLMAN, James was born on October 31, 1932 in Beatrice, Nebraska, United States. Son of Perry G. Collman and Frances Dorothy Palmer.
Bachelor of Science, University Nebraska, 1954. Master of Science, University Nebraska, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy (National Science Foundation fellow), University Illinois, 1958.
Docteur Honoris Causa, University Dijon, France, 1988. Docteur Honoris Causa, University Borgogne, France, 1988. Doctor (honorary), University Nebraska, 1988.
Instructor chemistry University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1958-1959, assistant professor, 1959-1962, associate professor, 1962-1967. Professor chemistry Stanford University, since 1967. George A. and Hilda M. Daubert professor chemistry Stanford University, since 1980.
Frontiers in Chemistry lecturer, 1964, Nebraska lectureship, 1968. Venable lecturer University North Carolina, 1971. Edward Clark Lee lecturer University Chicago, 1972.
Visiting Erskine fellow University Canterbury, 1972. Plenary lecturer French Chemical Society, 1974. Dreyfus lecturer University Kansas, 1974.
Distinguished inorganic lecturer University Rochester, 1974. Reilley lecturer University Notre Dame, 1975. William Pyle Philips lecturer Haverford College, 1975.
Merck lecturer Rutgers University, 1976. Federal Maritime Commission lecturer Princeton, 1977. Julius Steiglitz lecturer Chicago section American Chemical Society, 1977.
President's Seminar Series lecturer University Arizona, 1980. Frank C. Whitmore lecturer Pennsylvania State University, 1980. Plenary lecturer 3d International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Symposium on Organic Synthesis, 1980, 2d International Kyoto Conference on New Aspects Inorganic Chemistry, 1982, International Symposium on Models of Enzyme Action, Brighton, England, 1983, International Symposium, Italy, 1984.
Brockman lecturer University Georgia, 1981. Samuel C. Lind lecturer University Tennessee, 1981, Syntex Distinguished lecturer Colorado State University, 1983. Distinguished visiting lecturer University Florida, 1983.
Visiting professor University Auckland, New Zealand, 1985. Nelson J. Leonard lecturer University Illinois, 1987. Plenary lecturer International Symposium on Activation of Dioxygen and Homogeneous Catalytic Oxygenations, Tsukuba, Japan, 1987.
Plenary lecturer 12th International Symposium on Macrocyclic Chemical, Hiroshima, Japan, 1987. Lecturer Texas Agricultural and Mechanical, 1988. J. Clarence Karcher lecturer University Oklahoma, 1989.
Musselman lecturer Gettysburg College, 1990. Davis lecturer University New Orleans, 1991. PLU lecturer Oklahoma State University, 1991.
Lecturer 5th International Fischer Symposium, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1991. Lecturer Euchem Conference, 1991. Pratt lecturer University Virginia, 1992, others.
Lecturer series Harvard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992, Yale University, 1993. Invited speaker symposia, universities, conferences.
Prin ciples and Applications of Organo-transition Metal Chemistry (with Louis S. Hegedus) 1980, 1987 and 210 scientific papers.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, California Academy of Sciences (honorary). Member American Chemical Society (California section award 1972, Society award in inorganic chemistry 1975, Arthur C. Cope scholar 1986, Pauling award Puget Sound and Oregon section 1990, Distinguished Service award in inorganic chemistry 1991, Alfred Bader award 1997, Joseph Chatt lecturer 1998, Marker lecturer medal 1999, Ronald Breslow award, 2009), New York Academy of Sciences (Basolo medal 2000, Hans Fischer Porphyrin Chemistry award 2002), Chemical Society (London), National Academy of Sciences, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Alpha Chi Epsilon.
Fishing.
Married Patricia Tincher in 1955.