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Biographical Sketch<br />
John Montgomery was born in 1965 in Concord, N.C. He received his<br />
A.B degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in<br />
1987, and he carried out undergraduate research under the direction<br />
of Professors Joe Templeton and Maurice Brookhart. He received his<br />
Ph.D. at Colorado State University in 1991 under the direction of Professor<br />
Lou Hegedus. He was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral<br />
Fellow at the University of California at Irvine from 1991 –1993 with<br />
Professor Larry Overman. In 1993, he began his independent career at<br />
Wayne State University where he is now Professor of Chemistry. His<br />
work at Wayne State has focused on applications of organonickel chemistry in reaction<br />
discovery, synthetic methodology development, and total synthesis, and on the development<br />
of new methods for the synthesis of amino acids utilizing nitroacetates as glycine<br />
templates. He has received a number of awards including an Arthur C. Cope Scholar<br />
Award, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, and an NSF Career Award.
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