Catherine J. Murphy

Catherine J. Murphy, b. 1964, is an American chemist and materials scientist, the Larry Faulkner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [1]

Catherine Jones Murphy
Born
Morris Plains, New Jersey
NationalityUSA
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Known forGold Nanorods
AwardsNational Science Foundation CAREER Award

Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award

Cottrell Scholar Award
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow of the American Chemical Society
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry

Education and career

Murphy graduated bachelor's degrees in both chemistry and biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986. She earned her doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison under the direction of A. B. Ellis in 1990. She was a postdoctoral fellow with Jacqueline Barton at the California Institute of Technology from 1990 to 1993.

She joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina in 1993, the first female faculty member on the tenure track in that department. She remained at South Carolina through 2009, becoming the Guy F. Lipscomb Chair of Chemistry. Her research centered on inorganic nanomaterials and the biophysical properties of DNA. In 2009, she joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the Peter C. and Gretchen Miller Markunas Professor of Chemistry.[1]

Contributions

Murphy is known for her work on the seed-mediated synthesis of gold nanorods of controlled aspect ratio.[2] Her laboratory has developed the surface chemistry, biological applications,[3] and environmental implications of these nanomaterials.[4]

From 2006 to 2010, Murphy was a Senior Editor for the Journal of Physical Chemistry. She became the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry C in 2011.[5]

Since 2006, Murphy has been a coauthor of the general chemistry textbook, Chemistry: The Central Science.[6]

In 2020, Murphy was appointed as the Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the first woman to ever hold this position. [7]

Recognition

In 2008, Murphy was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[8]

In 2011, Murphy won the Inorganic Nanoscience Award given by the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society,[9] and was elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.[10]

In 2011, Thomson Reuters ranked Murphy as number 10 in their Top 100 Materials Scientists of 2000-2010[11] and as number 32 in their Top 100 Chemists of 2000-2010.[12]

In 2015, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[13] In 2017, she was named the Larry R. Faulker Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[14] She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.[15]

References
  1. "Catherine J. Murphy". chemistry.illinois.edu (Faculty page). Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
  2. Murphy, Catherine J. (2005). "Anisotropic Metal Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Assembly, and Optical Applications". The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 109 (29): 13857–13870. doi:10.1021/jp0516846. PMID 16852739.
  3. Connor, EE; Mwamuka, J; Gole, A; Murphy, CJ; Wyatt, MD (2005). "Gold nanoparticles are taken up by human cells but do not cause acute cytotoxicity". Small. 1 (3): 325–7. doi:10.1002/smll.200400093. PMID 17193451.
  4. Ferry, John L. (July 2009). "Transfer of gold nanoparticles from the water column to the estuarine food web". Nature Nanotechnology. 4 (7): 441–444. Bibcode:2009NatNa...4..441F. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.549.363. doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.157. PMID 19581897.
  5. "Deputy Editor". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
  6. "Chemistry: The Central Science Plus Mastering Chemistry with eText -- Access Card Package".
  7. "Cathy Murphy becomes first woman to head Department of Chemistry". Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  8. "Fellows". Archived from the original on 2014-07-27. Retrieved 2014-07-20.
  9. "Nanoscience Award". Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
  10. "2011 ACS Fellows". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
  11. "Top 100 Materials Scientists". Science Watch. Thomson Reuters. 2011.
  12. "Top 100 Chemists". Science Watch. Thomson Reuters. 2011.
  13. http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/april-28-2015-NAS-Election.html Archived 2015-11-20 at the Wayback Machine National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, April 28, 2015
  14. "Catherine Murphy named Larry R. Faulker Endowed Chair in Chemistry". Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  15. "New 2019 Academy Members Announced". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. April 17, 2019.


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