Galen D. Stucky

Stucky was born on December 17, 1936, in McPherson, Kansas. He graduated with a Bachelor's of Science degree at McPherson College in 1957. and an oxidation product formed from its exposure to oxygen. Stucky received his PhD in physical chemistry in 1962. From 1962 to 1963, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Prof. Clifford G. Shull. == Career ==

Stucky began his independent academic career in 1964 as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and was promoted to full professor in 1972. From 1981 to 1985, he worked at the Central Research and Development Laboratory of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. in Wilmington, Delaware, where he was a group and research leader. ==Notability==

Stucky has been ranked in the top five most-cited materials scientists in the world, according to Thomson Scientific's in-cites publication (more than 80 publications with over 60 citations). According to another publication by Thomson in late 2006, his work involving SBA was the most-cited paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. In 2007 his Hirsch index rating ranked in the top 40 among living chemists, and he was ranked in the top 30 most-cited scientists in chemistry by in-cites in late 2007. In June 2008, Sciencewatch.com featured "Mesoporous Materials" as a Special Topics analysis publication. He contributed research in the development of QuikClot, a lifesaving blood clotting drug with military and civilian applications. He is also the co-chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), A*STAR, Singapore which is headed by Jackie Y. Ying (Executive Director of IBN and adjunct professor of chemical engineering at MIT). ==Research group==

Alumni of Stucky's research group include Angela Belcher of MIT, Peidong Yang at UC Berkeley, Dongyuan Zhao at Fudan University, Yiying Wu at Ohio State, Kyong-Shin Choi at Wisconsin and Shannon Boettcher at the University of Oregon among many other notable scientists. In late 2006, former and current group members and colleagues gathered for a Symposium on Recent Advances in Nanoscale Materials Research at UCSB to celebrate Stucky's 70th birthday. The event was hosted by CNSI (Elings Hall) at UCSB. == External links ==