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Robert W. Murray Biography
Robert W. Murray joined the faculty at UM-St. Louis in 1968 after a very successful career at Bell Labs. He was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, and received degrees from Brown University, Wesleyan University and Yale, where he completed his Ph.D. with Professor Martin Saunders. He served as chair of the Chemistry Department at UMSL from 1975 to 1980. In 1981 he was the first chemist in the University of Missouri system to be appointed Curators Professor and has been a visiting scholar in Karlsruhe and Cork. He has received the American Chemical Society St. Louis Award in 1974, the ACS Midwest Award in 1989, the University of Missouri Presidential Award for Research and Creativity in 1990 and the I. H. Weldon Medal of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association in 1994. Professor Murray is well known for his research in the area of oxidation chemistry, particularly that involving ozone, singlet oxygen, hydrotrioxides and dioxiranes. His many contributions ha
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By OKECHUKWU PEACE
Dr. Samuel Achilefu, professor and Ghief of the optical radiology lab at Washington University School of Medicine, was honored with the 2014 St. Louis Award for his contributions to cancer treatment research.
Born to Nigerian parents during the Biafran War, he helped developed high-tech glasses that help surgeons visualize cancer cells during surgery. He is the 87th recipient of the award, established in 1931 by leading philanthropist David Wohl.
Here are some facts about the scholar… Samuel Achilefu, PhD was age five years old when the Biafran civil war forced his family to move to a safer area in Nigeria and start life anew.