David A. Evans - Curriculum Vitae

Personal:

Born:	January 11, 1941, Washington, D.C.

Address:	Harvard University Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel. (617) 495-2949 Fax (617) 495-1460 evans@chemistry.harvard.edu

Education:

1963	A.B., Chemistry, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
1967	Ph.D., Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Professional:

1967-1972	Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1972-1973	Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1974	Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1974-1983	Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
1983-1990	Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1990-2008	Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University
1995-1998	Chairman, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
2008-present	Research Professor

Awards and Honors:

1971	Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
1972	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow
1973	Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA Alumni Association
1982	ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
1983	M.A., Honorary, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1984	Allen R. Day Award, Philadelphia Organic Chemists Club, Philadelphia, PA
1984	Elected to National Academy of Sciences
1988	Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society
1988	American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1992	C. S. Hamilton Award, University of Nebraska
1992	Mack Award, Ohio State University
1992	Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1992	Pfizer Research Award for Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Pfizer, Inc.
1996	Remsen Award, Maryland Section, American Chemical Society
1997	Yamada Prize, University of Tokyo, Japan
1998	Tetrahedron Prize
1998	Robert Robinson Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
1999	The Prelog Medal, ETH, Zurich Switzerland
2000	Arthur C. Cope Award, American Chemical Society
2001	Elected to The Royal Society of Chemistry
2002	California Institute of Technology, Distinguished Alumni Award
2003	The Nagoya Medal, Nagoya University, Japan
2003	Karl Ziegler Prize, Max Planck, Muelheim, Germany
2005	Willard Gibbs Medal, Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society
2006	Ryoji Noyori Prize, Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
2006	Thomson Scientific Laureate in Chemistry, Thomson Scientific
2006	Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, awarded by the University of California, Los Angeles
2007	Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods, sponsored by the American Chemical Society
2007	Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize for Contributions to Undergraduate Education
2008	Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
2008	Humboldt Research Award for Senior Scientists, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2008	Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
2010	ACS Award for Creativity in Molecular Design and Synthesis
2012	Welch Prize in Chemistry, awarded by the Welch Foundation
2013	Roger Adams Award administered by the American Chemical Society

Honorary Lectureships: (since 1980)

1980	Chambers Lectureship, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
1981	Dains Lectureship, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
1982	Arapahoe Lectureship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
1983	Julius Steiglitz Lectureship, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1983	Lutz Lectureship, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1984	Ortho-McNeil Lectureship, McNeil Pharmaceutical, Spring House, PA
1984	Allan R. Day Award, Philadelphia Organic Chemists Club, Philadelphia, PA
1985	Abbott Lectureship, Yale University, New Haven, CN
1985	Francis C. Phillips Lectureship, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
1985	Greater Manchester Lectureship, I.C.I. Ltd., University of Manchester
1985	Ralph F. Hirschmann Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1985	Merck-Frosst Lectureship, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1985	Peter A. Leermakers Symp., Distinguished Lecturer, Wesleyan Univ.,Middletown, CT
1986	Carl Shipp Marvel Lectureship, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
1987	The Reilly Lecturer, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN
1987	Merck Lectureship, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
1987	The Merck Lecturer, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
1988	28th Werner E. Bachmann Memorial Lecturer, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1988	Alfred Burger Lecturer, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1988	Sandin Lecturer, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
1989	Robert Robinson Lectureship, Oxford University, England
1989	Third Nova Lecturer, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
1989	R. C. Fuson Lecturer, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
1989	DuPont Distinguished Lecturer, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN
1989	Roland Pettit Lecturer, University of Texas, Austin, TX
1990	Hirschmann Lecturer, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
1990	Werner Bergmann Lecturer, Yale University, CT
1991	William Rauscher Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
1991	Burkett Lecturer, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
1992	Mack Memorial Lecturer, Ohio State University, OH
1992	Cliff S. Hamilton Lecturer, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
1992	Merck Centennial Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1992	Distinguished Lecturer for 1992 ICI Symposium, Wilmington, DE
1993	Andersonian Chem. Soc., Centenary Lecturer, Univ. Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
1994	Merck Frosst Lectureship, University of Toronto, Canada
1994	Merck-Schuchardt-SFC Lecturer, Division of Organic Chemistry, France
1994	Kennedy Lecturer, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1995	Syntex Lecturer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1995	Lemieux Lecturer, University of Ottawa, Canada
1995	Weihnachtskolloquium Speaker, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
1996	Boehringer-Ingelheim Lecturer at Yale University
1996	Keynote Speaker at Boehringer Ingelheim Fellowship Symposium
1996	Powell Lecturer, University of Richmond, Virginia
1996	Boehringer-Ingelheim Lecturer, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1998	Beckman Lecturer, Caltech
1998	Conferència Fèlix Serratosa Lecturer, Barcelona, Spain
1998	Hope College Distinguished Scholar
1998	Peters Lecturer, Viginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
1998	Gilbert Stork Lecturer, Columbia University
1999	Astra Visiting Lecturer, University of Nottingham, UK
1999	Biomega-Boehringer Ingelheim Research Lecturer, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
1999	Priestley Lecturer, Pennsylvania State, University Park, PA
2000	Robert Robinson Lecturer, Royal Society of Chemistry, London, UK
2000	The Birch Lecturer, The Australian National University, Australia
2001	Merck-Schuchardt Lectureship, Germany
2001	Moffatt Lecture in Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Canada
2002	Abbott Lectureship, Univ. of California, Berkeley
2003	Karl Ziegler Lectureship, Max Planck, Muelheim, Germany
2003	R. E. Ireland Lecturer, University of Virginia
2003	Gassman Lectureship, University of Minnesota
2004	The Holm Lectureship, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen
2004	Bristol-Myers, Squibb Lecturer, Dept of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
2004	Pfizer Distinguished Lecturer at Michigan State University
2005	Gerhard Closs Lecturer, University of Chicago
2005	Inspire Lectureship, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
2005	McRae Lectureship, Queens University, Kingston, ONT
2006	Roche Lectureship, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Consultantships:

1972-1974	Upjohn Company
1974-1989	Eli Lilly Company
1989-2008	Merck Research Laboratories
1994-2001	Oxford Asymmetry Ltd., Oxon, England
1994-2002	Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharma Company
2002-present	Amgen

Memberships:

1974-1978	Advisory Board, Journal of Organic Chemistry
1981-present	Honorary Editorial Advisory Board of Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters
1983-1988	Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of the American Chemical Society
1981-1984	Advisory Board to the Office of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, NRC
1981-1985	National Research Council, Committee on Chemical Sciences
1989-present	Editorial Advisory Board, Topics in Stereochemistry
1993-1996	Editorial Advisory Board, Chemical Reviews
1996-present	Editorial Board, Current Opinion in Bio-organic Chemistry, London, UK
1999-present	Editorial Advisory Board, Organic Letters
2003-	Editorial Advisory Board, Accounts of Chemical Research

Resume Summary:

David A. Evans was born in Washington D.C. in 1941. He received his A.B. degree from Oberlin College in 1963. He obtained his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1967, where he worked under the direction of Professor Robert E. Ireland. In that year he joined the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1973 he was promoted to the rank of Full Professor and shortly thereafter returned to Caltech where he remained until 1983. In that year he joined the Faculty at Harvard University and in 1990 he was appointed as the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry.

In July of 1998 he completed his three-year term as chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and has gratefully returned to his research group and the pursuit of real science!