Who Are Tomorrow's Chemists and How Do We Reach Them: The Millennials |
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Speaker: | Dr. Russell Johnson | |
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Corporate Fellow,
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Date: | Friday, September 23, 2005 | |
Location: | Fountain Blue Banquets (Same as the main meeting) |
Job Club: 5:15-6:15 P.M.
Topical Group: 5:30-6:30 P.M.
Social Hour: 6:00- 7:00 P.M.
Dinner: 7:00 P.M.
Meeting: 8:00 P.M.
Russell W. Johnson serves on the Committee for Public Relations and Communications, the Council of the American Chemical Society, and for a second time as the Chair of the ACS Chicago Section. In his "day job," he works for Honeywell International as Corporate Fellow, the highest technical level at the company. He is also Chief Scientist, Demilitarization Technology. He has led the technology development effort for the company in demilitarization of propellants, explosives, and chemical agents. Dr. Johnson has worked across the corporation in aerospace, air purification, emission control, chemicals, fluorochemicals, petrochemicals and fuels over the last 31 years. He has received 48 patents and has a large number of technical publications. Dr. Johnson earned a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Colorado. Dr. Johnson's area of specialty is in applying catalysis and separations to chemical process technology. He was awarded American Chemical Society Heroes of Chemistry Award in 1997 for efforts in the area of environmentally sound manufacturing and demilitarization.