Geraldine L. Richmond

Quick Facts

Full Name	Geraldine L. Richmond
Date Of Birth	Jan 17, 1953(1953-01-17)
Age	71
Birthplace	Salina
Country	United States
Birth City	Kansas
Horoscope	Capricorn

Geraldine L. Richmond Biography

Geraldine L. Richmond is one of the most popular and richest Chemist who was born on January 17, 1953 in Salina, Kansas, United States. Geraldine Lee Richmond (born January 17th 1953, in Salina, Kansas) is an American chemical chemist and physical chemist. Richmond is the President’s Chair for Science as well as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oregon (UO). She conducts fundamental research in order to learn about the chemistry and the physical properties of interfaces and surfaces. These insights are crucial to the production of energy as well as atmospheric chemistry and the environmental remediation. In her professional career, she has worked to boost the amount and quality of female researchers within this country, the U.S. and in many developing nations in Africa, Asia and South America. Richmond was vice president for the American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as was awarded in 2013 the National Medal of Science.

In 1997, Richmond co-founded and is now Director of COACh the non-profit organization located in the University of Oregon that organizes international conferences as well as provides workshops for building careers aimed to increase the number and effectiveness of women scientists across both the U.S. and in many developing nations. Over 22,000 women have taken part in COACh workshops for building their careers until now.

Richmond is the Director for his NSF funding Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at the University of Oregon. Since its inception in 1987, it has been one of the longest-running REU programs within the United States. Over the past 30-year history of this REU program it has hosted over 400 students from across the nation, with 90% going on to graduate school.

Geraldine L. Richmond Net Worth

Geraldine L. Richmond is one of the richest Chemist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Geraldine L. Richmond 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Richmond earned her B.S. in chemistry at the age of 25 from Kansas State University and her Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of California, Berkeley and in physical chemical chemistry.

From 1980 until 1985, her position was as an assistant professor in Chemistry from 1980 to 1985 at Bryn Mawr College. In 1985 Richmond was at UO since 1985, in the role of associate professor for chemistry also as an associate professor from 1991. In 1995, she was head of the Chemical Physics Institute. From 1998 to 2001, her position was Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and between 2002 and 2013, she was she was the Richard M. and Patricia H. Noyes Professor of Chemistry at the UO. Her research in science covers the physical and chemical processes that take place in complex boundary layers and surfaces which includes the thermodynamic and structural properties of liquids / solids as well as liquid-liquid interfaces. The majority of her work utilized vibrational sum-frequency spectroscopy in investigating interfaces and surfaces; her article on this technique has been quoted over 800 times since its publication.

Richmond was appointed by Governor Kitzhaber to the Oregon State Board of Higher Education from 1999–2003 and reappointed by Governor Kulongoski from 2004-2006. From 1998-2003 she served as Chair of the Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC). In 2014, Richmond was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for a term beginning in February 2015. In 2014, she was appointed by Secretary John Kerry to serve as the Science Envoy for the Lower Mekong River Countries. She was appointed by President Obama to the National Science Board for a term of 2012–2016 and reappointed by President Trump from 2016-2022. Since 2016 she has served as Secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the 2019-2020 President of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society.

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