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Professor Jerrold Meinwald
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
Professor Jerrold Meinwald, Ph.D., has been Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University since 1980. His research interests cover a broad range of topics, including organic photochemistry, natural product structure and synthesis, anesthetic stereochemistry, and insect chemical ecology.
Prof. Meinwald was a founding scientist of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi, and served as an ICIPE Research Director from 1970 to 1977. A founding member of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology (CIRCE), Prof. Meinwald has served on advisory committees for the Max Planck Society, PROBEM/Amazonia, the Biosphere 2 Center of Columbia University, Arizona, the National Institutes of Health, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation, and the Princeton University Department of Chemistry. He has received many honors, among them membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Prof. Meinwald's numerous awards include the Tyler Prize in Environmental Achievement, a Silver Medal from the International Society of Chemical Ecology, and the Chemical Pioneer Award from the American Institute of Chemists.
Prof. Meinwald is the author and co-author of more than 390 scientific articles, and currently serves on the editorial boards of Current Organic Chemistry and the Journal of Chemical Ecology. Prof. Meinwald holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, and a Ph.B. and B.S. from the University of Chicago.
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