Robert E. Connick

Robert E. Connick (born 1917) is a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.

Life

Connick studied Chemistry at Berkeley, receiving his B.S. in 1939 and his Ph.D. in 1942. He was a research associate on the Manhattan Project from 1943 - 1946, and has been a professor, chair of the chemistry department, dean of the College of Chemistry, Vice Chancellor,[1] and Chair of the Academic Senate at both Berkeley and the entire University of California system.

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1963. He was a 1968 G.N. Lewis Lecturer and Awardee. [2] He is a two-time Guggenheim Fellow, in 1948 and 1958.[3]

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