Texas A&M University, College of Science

Distinguished Professors

Texas A&M University boasts a unique and outstanding group of faculty that hold the prestigious title of Distinguished Professor. This designation denotes a faculty member who is recognized as being in the top five percent of their field by peers throughout the world.

Academic units nominate faculty members and letters of support must be received from the top researchers in the nominee's field. Each successful nominee is granted the title by the Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System.

Distinguished Professor
  Name Biography
Portrait of Tadhg Begley Begley, Tadhg Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2011)

B.S., National University of Ireland, 1977; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1983; MERIT Award, National Institutes of Health (2008);

Research Interests: Biosynthesis of the vitamins, enzyme mechanism, protein structure, design and synthesis of mechanistic probes, enzyme inhibitors and small molecule probes of the proteome, PET imaging using vitamins..
Portrait of Raymond Carroll Carroll, Raymond Distinguished Professor. - (Since 1997)

B.A., University of Texas Austin, 1971; Ph.D., Purdue University, 1974; MERIT Award, National Institutes of Health (2005); Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research, National Institute of Statistical Sciences (2003); Mitchell Prize to Bayesian Statistics, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (2003); The R.A. Fisher Lectureship, Council of Presidents of Statistical Societies (2002); The Presidents' Award, Council of Presidents of Statistical Societies (1998); George W. Snedecor Award, American Statistical Assocation (1997); Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation (1996);

Research Interests: Data transformations, heteroscedastic regression, measurement error models and asymptotic theory.
Portrait of Abraham Clearfield Clearfield, Abraham Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2007)

B.A., Temple University, 1948; M.A., Temple University, 1951; Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1954;

Research Interests: Crystallography; solid state chemistry; synthesis, structure, and ion exchange behavior of inorganic compounds; chemistry of zirconium; structure of coordination and organometallic compounds; layered compounds; drug delivery and functionalization of surfaces.
Portrait of Paul Cremer Cremer, Paul Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2012)

B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996; Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research, The Welch Foundation (2006); Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation (2003); Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2002); Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER), National Science Foundation (2001);

Research Interests: Investigations of biological interfaces by nonlinear optical spectroscopy, fluorescence microscopy, and microfluidic techniques.
Portrait of Donald Darensbourg Darensbourg, Donald Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2010)

B.S., California State University, Los Angeles, 1964; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana, 1968;

Research Interests: Synthetic, structural, and mechanistic studies aimed at a better understanding of important catalytic processes; processes relevant to the utilization of carbon dioxide as a starting material for the synthesis of organic compounds, including polymers.
Portrait of Marcetta Darensbourg Darensbourg, Marcetta Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2010)

B.S., Union College Kentucky, 1963; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana, 1967; Fellow, American Academy of Arts \& Sciences (2011);

Research Interests: synthetic and mechanistic inorganic chemistry, including functioning models of catalytic active sites in bioinorganic/organometallic/bioorganometallic systems; development of synthetic analogues of the diiron hydrogenase active site and the insight they bring to the catalytic mechanism of these natural fuel cell catalysts.
Portrait of Ronald DeVore DeVore, Ronald Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2010)

B.S., Eastern Michigan University, 1964; Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1967; Fellow, American Acedemy of Arts & Sciences (2001);

Research Interests: Applications of fourier analysis, numerical analysis and approximation theory to problems in signal analysis and remote sensing.
Portrait of Ronald Douglas Douglas, Ronald Distinguished Professor. - (Since 1999)

B.S., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1960; Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1962;

Research Interests: Functional analysis.
Portrait of Kim Dunbar Dunbar, Kim Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2007)

B.S., Westminster College, 1980; Ph.D., Purdue University, 1984; Fellow, American Physical Society (2011); Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation; Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation;

Research Interests: Synthesis and characterization of transition metal compounds and molecule-based materials with unusual physical properties; nucleic acid binding of metal complexes.
Portrait of Ciprian Foias Foias, Ciprian Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2007)

Ph.D., Institute of Mathematics, Bucharest, 1962; Ed.D., University of Bucharest, 1968;

Research Interests: Partial differential equations; operator theory.
Portrait of Edward Fry Fry, Edward Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2010)

B.S., University of Michigan, 1962; M.S., University of Michigan, 1963; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1969; Fellow, American Physical Society (1997); EG&G Medal, Society of Optical and Quantum Electronics (1995);

Research Interests: Atomic and molecular spectroscopy; quantum optics; foundations of quantum mechanics; electromagnetic scattering by particles; ocean optics.
Portrait of John Gladysz Gladysz, John Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2008)

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1974;

Research Interests: organometallic chemistry, catalysis, enantioselective organic synthesis, stereochemistry, green chemistry, materials chemistry, nanoscopic devices such as molecular wires and gyroscopes.
Portrait of Rostislav Grigorchuk Grigorchuk, Rostislav Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2008)

B.S., Moscow Lomonosov State University, 1970; M.S., Moscow Lomonosov State University, 1975; Ph.D., Moscow Lomonosov State University, 1978;

Research Interests: Combinatorial group theory.
Portrait of Paul Hardin Hardin, Paul Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2008)

B.S., Southern Methodist University, 1982; Ph.D., Indiana University, 1987;

Research Interests: Molecular biology of biological clocks in Drosophila, behavioral neurogenetics, transcriptional regulation.
Portrait of John Hardy Hardy, John Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2007)

B.S., McGill University, 1961; M.S., McGill University, 1963; Ph.D., McGill University, 1965; Fellow, American Physical Society; Fellow, Royal Society of Canada;

Research Interests: Experimental nuclear physics; weak interactions in nuclei; exotic nuclei and decays.
Portrait of Dudley Herschbach Herschbach, Dudley Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2011)

B.S., Stanford University, 1954; M.S., Stanford University, 1955; A.M., Harvard University, 1956; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1958; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, The Nobel Foundation (1986); Member, National Academy of Sciences (1967); Fellow, American Acedemy of Arts & Sciences (1964);

Research Interests: Chemical physics; collision stereodynamics; molecular slowing; catalytic supersonic expansions; strongly correlated many-particle interactions.
Portrait of William Johnson Johnson, William Distinguished Professor. - (Since 1989)

B.A., Southern Methodist University, 1966; Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1969;

Research Interests: Functional analysis.
Portrait of Olga Kocharovskaya Kocharovskaya, Olga Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2007)

M.S., Gorky State University, 1978; Ph.D., Gorky State University, 1986; Fellow, American Physical Society (2005);

Research Interests: Theoretical atomic physics; quantum optics; laser physics.
Portrait of Peter Kuchment Kuchment, Peter Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2011)

M.S., Voronezh State University, 1971; Ph.D., Kharkov State University, 1973; D.Sc., , 1983;

Research Interests: Partial differential equations.
Portrait of David Lee Lee, David Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2012)

A.B., Harvard University, 1952; M.S., University of Connecticut, 1955; Ph.D., Yale University, 1959; Nobel Prize in Physics, The Nobel Foundation (1996); Member, National Academy of Sciences (1991); Fellow, American Acedemy of Arts & Sciences (1990);
Portrait of Ronald Macfarlane Macfarlane, Ronald Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2008)

B.A., University of Buffalo, 1954; M.S., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1957; Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1959;

Research Interests: Application of modern techniques to the study of cardiovascular disease; development of state-of-the-art analytical chemistry methodologies to contribute to the solution of important clinical problems.
Portrait of Bani Mallick Mallick, Bani Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2011)

B.S., Calcutta University, 1986; M.S., Calcutta University, 1990; M.S., University of Connecticut, 1992; Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1994; Fellow, American Statistical Association (2005); Fellow, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences (2002);

Research Interests: Bayesian nonparametric and semiparametric modeling, survival analysis, generalized linear models, neural networks, spatial statistics.
Portrait of Dimitri Nanopoulos Nanopoulos, Dimitri Distinguished Professor. - (Since 1992)

B.S., University of Athens, 1971; Ph.D., University of Sussex, 1973; 2005 Prize, The Gravity Research Foundation (2005); Commander of the Order of Honor, highest possible distinction of the Greek State, (1996); Permanent Membership, Academy of Athens' Natural and Applied Sciences Section (1996);

Research Interests: High-energy theory; supersymmetry; supergravity; superstrings; astroparticle physics; neurophysics.
Portrait of Joseph Natowitz Natowitz, Joseph Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2004)

B.S., University of Florida, 1958; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1965; Southwest Regional Award, American Chemical Society (2000); Award for Nuclear Chemistry, American Chemical Society (1995);

Research Interests: Nuclear reaction mechanisms; thermodynamics of highly excited nuclei, limits to existence of nuclei; the nuclear equation of state; nuclear dynamics.
Portrait of Gilles Pisier Pisier, Gilles Distinguished Professor. - (Since 1985)

B.S., University of Paris, 1967; Ph.D., University of Paris, 1977; Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences (2005); Member, Paris Academy of Sciences (2002); Stephan Banach Medal, Polish Academy of Sciences (2001); Ostrowski Prize, The Ostrowski Foundation (1997);

Research Interests: Functional analysis.
Portrait of Valery Pokrovsky Pokrovsky, Valery Distinguished Professor. - (Since 1998)

M.S., Kharkov State University, 1953; Ph.D., Tomsk State University, 1957; Lars Onsager Prize, American Physical Society (2005); Award for U.S. Scientists, Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation (2000); Landau Prize, Russian Academy of Sciences (1984);

Research Interests: Theoretical condensed matter; quantum mechanics.
Portrait of Christopher Pope Pope, Christopher Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2006)

B.S., Clare College, University of Cambridge, 1976; M.A., St. John's College, University of Cambridge, 1979; Ph.D., St. John's College, University of Cambridge, 1980;

Research Interests: High-energy theory.
Portrait of Frank Raushel Raushel, Frank Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2010)

B.A., St. Thomas College, 1972; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976;

Research Interests: Determination of enzyme reaction mechanisms and protein structure using kinetic, genetic, and magnetic resonance techniques.
Portrait of Marlan Scully Scully, Marlan Distinguished Professor. - (Since 1996)

Ed.D., Casper College, 1959; B.S., University of Wyoming, 1961; M.S., Yale University, 1963; Ph.D., Yale University, 1966; Fellow, American Acedemy of Arts & Sciences (2008); Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, American Physical Society (2005); Quantum Electronics Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Laser and Electro-Optics Society (IEEE LEOS) (2003); Member, National Academy of Sciences (2001); Foreign Member, Academia Europaea (2000); Foreign Member, Max-Planck Society (Germany) (2000); Charles H. Townes Award, Optical Society of America (1998); Adolph E. Lomb Medal, Optical Society of America (1996); Elliott Cresson Medal, The Franklin Institute (1990); Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1990); EG&G Medal, Society of Optical and Quantum Electronics;

Research Interests: Laser physics; quantum optics; nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; bioengineering.
Portrait of Clifford Spiegelman Spiegelman, Clifford Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2009)

B.A., SUNY Buffalo, 1970; M.S., Northwestern University, 1973; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1976; Fellow, International Statistical Institute (1995);

Research Interests: Applications in physical and engineering sciences: transportation, chemometrics, environmetrics, biology, forensics.
Portrait of Robert Tribble Tribble, Robert Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2009)

B.S., University of Missouri, 1969; Ph.D., Princeton University, 1973; Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1976);

Research Interests: Nuclear astrophysics; nuclear reactions; weak interactions; QCD studies.
Portrait of Karen Wooley Wooley, Karen Distinguished Professor. - (Since 2011)

B.S., Oregon State University, 1988; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1993;

Research Interests: Design, synthesis and characterization of unique polymers, with emphasis upon the development of synthetic methodologies that allow for the preparation of complex nanostructured materials; novel macromolecular nanostructures for biomedical and materials applications; degradable polymers; nanoscale polymer assemblies; functional polymers.
Distinguished Professor (J)
  Name Biography
Portrait of Arthur Johnson Johnson, Arthur Distinguished Professor (J). - (Since 2002)

B.S., California Institute of Technology, 1964; Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1973;

Research Interests: Protein trafficking; membranes; bacterial cytolysins; fluorescence spectroscopy; photocrosslinking; fret; protein folding.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
  Name Biography
Portrait of James Bramble Bramble, James Distinguished Professor Emeritus. - (Since 2007)

Ed.D., Brown University, 1953; M.A., University of Maryland, 1955; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1958;

Research Interests: numerical analysis.
Portrait of Charles Chui Chui, Charles Distinguished Professor Emeritus. - (Since 2000)

B.S., University of Wisconsin, 1962; M.S., University of Wisconsin, 1963; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1967;

Research Interests: Approximation Theory.
Portrait of John Fackler Fackler, John Distinguished Professor Emeritus. - (Since 2012)

B.A., Valparaiso University, 1956; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960; Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society (2001); Fulbright Research Scholarship - Columbia, Fulbright Scholars Program (1967);

Research Interests: Coordination and organometallic chemistry; spectra, structures and reactivities; Jahn-Teller ions; sulfur ligands; metal-metal bonding; bioinorganic compounds; transition metal catalysis; ylide compounds of transition elements; gold, silver, and copper chemistry.
Portrait of Jack Lunsford Lunsford, Jack Distinguished Professor Emeritus. - (Since 2008)

B.S., Texas A&M University, 1957; Ph.D., Rice University, 1962; American Chemical Society Creative Research in Homogeneous or Heterogeneous Catalysis, Shell Oil Company (2001); Award in Petroleum Chemistry, American Chemical Society (1996); Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1975); Paul H. Emmett Award In Fundamental Catalysis, North American Catalysis Society (1975);

Research Interests: physical/nuclear chemistry.
Portrait of Emanuel Parzen Parzen, Emanuel Distinguished Professor Emeritus. - (Since 2010)

Ed.D., Harvard University, 1949; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1951; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1953; Noether Award for Nonparametric Statistics, American Statistical Association (2005); Noether Senior Scholar, American Statistical Association (2005); Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Medal, American Statistical Association (1994);

Research Interests: Statistical science-developing statistical methods for time series analysis, data analysis, and change analysis.
Portrait of Donald Sawyer Sawyer, Donald Distinguished Professor Emeritus. - (Since 1996)

B.S., University of California, Los Angeles, 1953; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1956;
Distinguished Professor Emeritus (A)
  Name Biography
Portrait of Richard Arnowitt Arnowitt, Richard Distinguished Professor Emeritus (A). - (Since 2004)

B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1948; M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1948; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1953; Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, American Physical Society (1994);

Research Interests: High-energy theory; astro-particle physics.
Portrait of Timothy Hall Hall, Timothy Distinguished Professor Emeritus (A). - (Since 2011)

B.S., University of Nottingham, 1962; Ph.D., University of Nottingham, 1965;

Research Interests: Gene networks and regulation of expression; Rice biotechnology; Epigenetics.
 
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