Patrick Walsh Named William Warren Rhodes-Robert J. Thompson Professor of Chemistry

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Patrick Walsh, Professor of Chemistry, has been named William Warren Rhodes-Robert J. Thompson Professor of Chemistry.

A member of the Penn faculty since 1999, Walsh works in the areas of catalysis, methods development, and reaction mechanisms. From 2008 to 2018, Walsh was the Alan MacDiarmid Term Professor of Chemistry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2016. Walsh has been selected as one of 10 annual recipients of a 2025 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award. The award, administered by the American Chemical Society, recognizes and encourages excellence in organic chemistry.

The Rhodes-Thompson Professorship was established in 1972 through the generosity of the late William W. Rhodes, C’1910, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Thompson. Rhodes and Thompson were close friends and business associates at the DuPont Company for more than 30 years. They chose to commemorate their long working relationship and advance the study of chemistry through this professorship.

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