John E. Bercaw

John E. Bercaw (born December 3, 1944) is an American chemist and Centennial Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Bercaw obtained his Ph. D. from the University of Michigan in 1971 under the direction of Hans-Herbert Brintzinger, followed by postdoctoral research with Jack Halpern at the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty at the Caltech in 1972. Bercaw was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and he has received several national awards from the American Chemical Society. His research interests are in synthetic, structural and mechanistic organotransition metal chemistry, including most...