Jerry Spivey Receives 2020 Murray Raney Award
November 13, 2019
Congratulations go to Dr. Jerry Spivey on receiving the 2020 Murray Raney Award!
The Organic Reaction Catalysis Society is pleased to announce Dr. Jerry Spivey, James McLaurin Shivers Professor at Louisiana State University, as the recipient of the 2020 Murray Raney Award for his significant contributions to advance the development and characterization of heterogeneous catalysts for applications such as environmental catalysis and synthesis of chemical intermediates from simple carbon feedstocks such as methane.
Dr. Spivey received his BS and MS degrees from NC State University and his PhD from LSU in 1980. He worked at Albemarle (Baton Rouge) from 1974-1980, carrying out his PhD requirements and meeting the PhD residence requirement in 1978. He was Director of Process Research at RTI (1980-2000), joining the NC State faculty in 2000 and then LSU in 2003. He served as Director of LSU’s Center for Atomic-level Catalyst Design 2009-2015, a multi-organization dedicated to advancing both computational and experimental heterogeneous catalysts. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (Cambridge, UK), named a Fellow in 2007, and is Editor-in-Chief of Catalysis Today (Elsevier).
This Award is administered by ORCS and generously funded by Grace Catalysts Technologies.