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SOUTHWEST REGIONAL AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
SCIENCE AWARD
D. WAYNE GOODMAN, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR AND
ROBERT A. WELCH CHAIR, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
TEXAS A&M SECTION OF THE ACS
Dr. D. Wayne Goodman received degrees in Chemistry from Mississippi College (B.S., 1968) and the
University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D, 1974). He received a NATO Postdoctoral Award to study at the
University of Darmstadt in Germany and subsequently a NRC Postdoctoral Award for research at the National
Bureau of Standards (now NIST). He joined the staff of NBS in 1978 then assumed a Staff Scientist position
at Sandia National Laboratories in 1980. After serving as the Head of the Surface Science Division at Sandia
he joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department at Texas A&M in 1988 where he is currently Distinguished
Professor and the Robert A. Welch Chair. He is the recipient of the Ipatieff Award of the American Chemical
Society in 1983, the Colloid and Surface Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society in 1993, the
Yarwood Medal of the British Vacuum Society in 1994, a Humboldt Research Award in 1995, a Distinguished
Research Award of Texas A&M University in 1997, the Giuseppe Parravano Award in 2001, the Adamson
Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry of the American Chemical
Society, a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award in 2002, and the Gabor A. Sormorjai Award for Creative
Research in Catalysis of the American Chemical Society in 2005. In 2008 he was the recipient of the JoAnn
Treat Research Excellence Award of the TAMU Research Foundation and in 2009 the Distinguished Scientist
Award of Sigma Xi. In 2009 he was also appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow
of the American Chemical Society. He is the author of over 500 publications/book chapters and is an active
member/officer of a number of professional societies. He has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of
Catalysis, and currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Surface Science, Langmuir, Catalysis Letters, Topics
in Catalysis, the Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter and E-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology.
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