A new leadership chair in Caltech's Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (CCE) will amplify the Institute's support of its scholars' freedom to pursue the most interesting and challenging lines of inquiry. Established through a $10 million gift from a couple who wish to remain anonymous, the chair will be named in honor of the late Norman Davidson, a longtime Caltech faculty member whose scientific contributions represented in part the beginnings of molecular biology.
"Through this gift, CCE can maintain its excellence and move forward in new frontiers in chemistry," says Jacqueline K. Barton, Caltech's Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry and inaugural holder of the Norman Davidson Leadership Chair.
Written by Marisa Demers