Ted Carnahan to receive Gordon E. Moore Medal

ERJ staff report (DS)

New York -- The Society of Chemical Industry will award the fifth SCI Gordon E. Moore Medal to Edmund ("Ted") M. Carnahan, a scientist at The Dow Chemical Company in Freeport, Texas. He will be presented with the medal at Innovation Day 2008 at Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) in Philadelphia on Thursday, September 18. Immediately following this all-day event will be the Perkin Medal dinner, now in its 102nd year.

Carnahan is being honoured for his contributions to the breakthrough discovery of a route for the catalytic synthesis of olefin-block copolymers. This process has been scaled-up and commercially implemented at Dow in record time to produce a highly versatile new product line that will be sold as Infuse Olefin Block Copolymers.

Carnahan is a scientist at Dow in Freeport, Texas. He joined Dow in 1996, and his initial research focused on aspects of polyolefin catalysis for solution, slurry, and gas-phase processes. In 2006 he became the scientific leader for the Catalyst and Chemistry group and is responsible for setting the overall technical strategy and vision within the group.

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