Steven Dale Ittel
Personal: Born: 1946
Hamilton, Ohio, USA
Married: Kathleen Patricia Hames
Children: Jeffrey William Ittel
Laura Marie Ittel
Education: 1964-1968
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
B.S. with Honors in Chemistry
1970-1974
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry
Thesis: "Transition Metal Complexes of Substituted Diazenes"
Thesis adviser: James A. Ibers
Professional Positions:
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Central Research & Development
Experimental Station
Wilmington, Delaware l9880-0328
Research Manager - Polymer Catalysis, Nanotechnology
Materials Science and Engineering 1993 - present
Research Supervisor - Homogeneous Catalysis
Polymer Sciences 1981-1985, 1990 - 1993
Chemical Sciences 1981- 1983, 1985 - 1990
Advanced Materials 1990 - 1991
Physical Sciences 1983 - 1985
Group Leader - Exploratory Organometallic Chemistry
Chemical Sciences 1979-1981
Research Chemist 1974-1979
N.Y.-N.J.-Conn. Air Pollution Abatement Activity
National Air Pollution Control Administration
United States Public Health Service
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
New Brunswick, N.J.
Assistant Project Director 1970
Commissioned Officer and Chief Chemist 1968-1969
Monsanto Research Corporation
Dayton Laboratories, Air Pollution Abatement 1968
Mound Laboratories (Atomic Energy Commission) 1967
Miamisburg, Ohio
Award: Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Award (2002)
Other Activities:
American Chemical Society (1968-present)
Publications Committee (1982-1985)
Inorganic Award Nomination Committee (1982-1985)
Division of Inorganic Chemistry
Organometallic Subdivision - Chairman (1984-1985)
C&E News Editorial Board (1984)
Organometallics Editorial Advisory Board (1987-1989)
Organometallic Award Committee (1990-1992)
Polymer Award Committee (1997-2000)
Editorial Boards
Inorganic Syntheses, Wiley (1982-1987)
Catalysis by Metal Complexes, Kluwer (formerly Reidel, 1989-Present)
Organizational Activities
US/USSR Exchange Program in Environmentally Related Catalysis
Chairman (1985-1987)
Symposium on Metals in Olefin Polymerization
American Chemical Society Meeting
Denver, Colorado, April 1987
PUDDuP Lecture Series on Inorganic Chemistry (1992-2000)
Regional symposium series sponsored by Penn, U. Delaware, DuPont)
Catalysis Society and Catalysis Club of Philadelphia (1985-present)
Sigma Xi (1984-present)
New York Academy of Sciences (1984-present)
Brandywine Bonsai Society (1994-present)
Secretary (1999-present)
American Conifer Society (2000-present)