Robert Owen Hutchins

Robert Owen Hutchins (September 25, 1939 – October 9, 2009) was an American

Notre Dame University

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He then joined Drexel University as an assistant professor in 1968; he was promoted to associate professor in 1974, and then full professor in 1979. He was named G.S. Sasin Professor of Organic Chemistry and served as chemistry department head for 14 years. He retired in 2008.

His research focused on new

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Drexel honored Hutchins with a Research Achievement Award in 1982 and a University Scholar Award in 1985. In 1987 he received both the distinguished alumni award from California State and the 26th Research Award of the Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society. The Chemistry Department at Drexel announced establishment of the Dr. Robert O. Hutchins Endowed Chemistry Prize in 2002.^[1] The Constantine Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building at Drexel has an organic chemistry teaching laboratory named in memory of Hutchins.^[2]

Hutchins received the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback distinguished teaching Award from Drexel in 1980. Among his notable group alumni are

Bruce E. Maryanoff (inventor of topamax or topiramate), who was his first Ph.D. student (B.S. 1970, Ph.D. 1972), and Cindy A. (Milewski) Maryanoff

, who was an undergraduate research participant (B.S. 1972). Dr. Ira Taffer (Ph.D.) and Dr. Robert Zipkin (B.S. Drexel, Ph.D. Univ. Penn), an undergraduate researcher, who later founded the Biotech company BIOMOL, were members of his research group.

Hutchins died on October 9, 2009, after an illness. His wife, Mary Gail Kinzer Hutchins, preceded him in death on August 16, 2001. He left behind two sons as well as two grandsons.

References

^ "DR. ROBERT O. HUTCHINS ENDOWED CHEMISTRY PRIZE ESTABLISHED". April 19, 2002. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
^ "Connect 10 - Drexel University Philanthropy Journal". Drexel University. 2010. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2014.

Chemical & Engineering News, November 16, 2009, page 50, www.cen-online.org

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[Drexel_2002-1] "DR. ROBERT O. HUTCHINS ENDOWED CHEMISTRY PRIZE ESTABLISHED". April 19, 2002. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 11 January 2014.

[Connect_10-2] "Connect 10 - Drexel University Philanthropy Journal". Drexel University. 2010. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2014.

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