Richard Pierson Buck

Background

Buck, Richard Pierson was born on July 29, 1929 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Richard Maurice and Lucile Frances (Pierson) Buck.

Education

Bachelor of Science, California Institute Technology, 1950; Master of Science, California Institute Technology, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1954.

Career

Teaching assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1951-1952; National Science Foundation fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1952-1953; Dupont teaching fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1953-1954; research chemist, Chevron Research Corporation, Richmond, California, 1954-1961; assistant to general manager, Chevron Research Corporation, Richmond, California, 1956-1958; principal research chemist, Bell & Howell Research Center, Pasadena, California, 1961-1965; senior scientist, Beckman Instrument Company, Fullerton, California, 1965-1967; associate professor of chemistry, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1967-1975; professor, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1975; Adjunct Professor biomedical engineering and mathematics School Medicine, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1990; professor emeritus, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1998. Kenan professor-on-leave U. Bristol, England, 1976-1977. Visiting professor Imperial College, London, 1987, Bundeswehr U. Munich, 1989-1991.

Consultant Eastman Kodak, Rochester, New York, 1969-1977, E.I. duPont de Nemours & Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1979-1984. Member of advisory board I-Stat Corporation, Princeton, New Jersey, 1984-1990, HemoSense, Inc., San Jose, California, since 1998, National Institutes of Health resource at Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, 1977-1984, Center for Solid State Sensors, University of Pennsylvania Moore School Engineering, Philadelphia, 1980-1984. Chairman A Nomenclature Commission, International Union Pure and Applied Chemistry, since 1991.

Achievements

• Richard Pierson Buck has been listed as a noteworthy Chemistry educator, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Electrochemical Society (division chairman, outstanding achievement award sensor division 1996). Member American Chemical Society, International Society Electrochemistry (board directors 1988-1991), Bohemian Club (San Francisco).

Interests

• Avocations: performing chamber music, solo piano playing.

Connections

Married Mary Ann Kenney, May 23, 1959. Children: Nancy Elizabeth Buck McKenna, Pierson Kenney, Margaret Ruth.

Father:

Richard Maurice Buck

Mother:

Lucile Frances (Pierson) Buck

Spouse:

Mary Ann Kenney

child:

Pierson Kenney Buck

child:

Margaret Ruth Buck

child:

Nancy Elizabeth Buck McKenna Buck