Cal Y. Meyers

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Cal Meyers passed away peacefully on Friday, March 16, 2012. Born and raised in Utica, New York, he earned his B.A. in Chemistry as a LaVerne Noyes Scholar at Cornell University in 1948 and he received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1951. He was a post-doctoral scholar at Princeton University and then worked for seven years at Union Carbide. He taught at the University of Bologna and U.C.L.A. before coming to Southern Illinois University in 1964.
For almost half a century Cal spent virtually every day at his extraordinarily successful and prolific SIU lab, where he authored hundreds of articles and received many patents. He presented invited papers in most states as well as in Italy, Japan, Hungary, the Czech Republic, England, France, Switzerland, Poland, China, Serbia, Sweden, Norway, Canada and elsewhere. He refereed manuscripts for a dozen academic chemistry publications, regularly reviewed grant applications for the National Science Foundation and others, and was invited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to submit proposals for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on at least three occasions.
In 2000 Cal established the Meyers Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, and his endowment of the Institute, which Cal directed until his death, will enable it to do significant truly interdisciplinary scientific work for generations to come.
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