TOBIN J. MARKS
B.S. 1966
CHEMICAL & LIFE SCIENCES
INDUCTED JUNE 4, 2005

Tobin Marks, the Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry, has been teaching at Northwestern University since 1970. His research has been used in the development of new plastics and the improvement of high-speed data transmission. Though his mailing address has been in Illinois, Marks has held named lectureships and visiting professorships at universities from British Columbia to Israel. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has registered nearly 80 patents. Marks earned the American Institute of Chemists’ Gold Medal in 2002.

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