Marjorie Caserio

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Marjorie Constance Caserio
Garvan Medal
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Irvine, University of California, San Diego
Theses
  • "The alkaline hydrolysis of ethyl p-alkybenzoates." (M.A., 1951)
  • "The kinetics of bromination of naphthalene" (Ph.D., 1956)

Marjorie Constance Caserio (née Beckett; February 26, 1929 – April 19, 2021)

Garvan Medal by the American Chemical Society.[2]

Early life and education

Caserio was born Marjorie Constance Beckett in

Sir John Dill Fellowship by the English-Speaking Union which allowed her to study at Bryn Mawr College in the United States, she earned an M.A. in chemistry in 1951. Her thesis was entitled "The alkaline hydrolysis of ethyl p-alkybenzoates."[2]

For a year she worked at the

Birkbeck College in London, but was not offered financial aid. Instead, Caserio returned to Bryn Mawr in the U.S., earning her Ph.D. in 1956 with a dissertation entitled "The kinetics of bromination of naphthalene."[2][3]

Career

Caserio was hired by

benzyne reaction intermediates in nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions.[9]

She collaborated with Roberts in writing an organic chemistry textbook, Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry, first published in 1964.[10] Notable for its comprehensiveness and then-unusual emphasis on spectroscopy, it proved enormously influential in how the subject was taught. Also working with Roberts was chemist Fred Caserio.

University of California, Irvine

In 1964, Caserio was hired as the second faculty member in chemistry at the brand new

allenes[11][12][13] and bonding and reactions of sulfur compounds.[14][15] She was one of the first scientists to employ nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study the kinetics and mechanisms of these organic reactions,[16][17] and ion cyclotron resonance to study gas-phase reactions.[18][19] Caserio became a full professor at UC Irvine in 1972, and chair of the chemistry department in 1987.[2]

University of California, San Diego

In 1990, she became vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of California, San Diego. She later served as interim chancellor, and retired in 1996.[20]

Personal life and death

In 1957, she married Fred Caserio; she became a US citizen the same year. They had two sons.[2] She died in 2021, aged 92, on a trip to Mexico.[21]

References

  1. ^ Obituary, cucea.org. Accessed February 21, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Goldwhite, Harold (1993). "Marjorie Constance Beckett Caserio". In Grinstein, Louise S.; Rose, Rose K.; Rafailovich, Miriam H. (eds.). Women in Chemistry and Physics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook. Greenwood Press. pp. 85–93.
  3. ^ Beckett, Marjorie Constance (1956). The Kinetics of Bromination of Napthalene (Ph.D. thesis) – via ProQuest.
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  19. ^ "Marjorie Caserio & Vy Dong". Calisphere. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  20. ISBN 9781438118826
    . Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  21. ^ Obituary, cucea.org. Accessed February 21, 2024.

Books

External links
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