Professor Philip B. Shevlin is an American experimental chemist, based primarily at Auburn University

Auburn University

Auburn University is a public university located in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 25,000 students and 1,200 faculty members, it is one of the largest universities in the state. Auburn was chartered on February 7, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts...

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Professor Shevlin is an internationally-recognized research scientist. His special field of expertise is centered on the chemistry of high energy reactive intermediates. These intermediates include atomic carbon, carbene

Carbene

In chemistry, a carbene is a molecule containing a neutral carbon atom with a valence of two and two unshared valence electrons. The general formula is RR'C:, but the carbon can instead be double-bonded to one group. The term "carbene" may also merely refer to the compound H2C:, also called...

s, monovalent carbon species and other energetic molecules.

Professor Shevlin is also involved in the synthesis of a variety of carbocyclic and heterocyclic nucleoside analogs.

Curriculum vitae

• 1965-1966 Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• 1966-1968 U.S. Army
• 1968-1970 Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• 1970-1974 Assistant Professor, Auburn University
• 1974-1979 Associate Professor, Auburn University
• 1979 -1998 Professor, Auburn University
• 1998- 2002 Mosley Professor of Science and Humanities, Auburn University
• 2002- Professor Emeritus, Auburn university

Education

• B. S. Lafayette College, Easton, PA, 1961
• M. S. Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1963
• Ph.D. Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1966

Books

• Shevlin, P. B. and Campbell, O. A.. Concepts of Science; Kendall/Hunt: Dubuque, IA, 2nd Edition, 1995.
• Shevlin, P. B.,Concepts of Science; Kendall/Hunt: Dubuque, IA, 1993.

External links

• "University Home Page