Cal Meyers

Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
Southern Illinois University Carbondale

HONORS/AWARDS:

• LaVerne Noyes Scholarship (1946-48)

• Union Carbide Award for Creative Research (1957)

• Hungarian and Italian Chemical Societies Joint Symposium (Budapest)-Invited Symposium Lecturer (1961)

• Swiss and Italian Chemical Societies Joint Meeting (Naples)-Invited Symposium Lecturer (1962)

• American Chemical Society National Meeting (Philadelphia)-Invited Symposium Lecturer (1964)

• Intra-Science research Foundation Award (1964); Fellow (1971)

• American Chemical Society Polymer Symposium (Evanston)-Invited Symposium Lecturer (1965)

• American Petroleum Institute Symposium on Sulfur Chemistry (Laramie)-Invited Symposium Lecturer (1965)

• Princeton Conference on the Chemistry of Sulfides (Princeton)-Invited Conference Lecturer (1966)

• Gordon Research Conference on Heterocyclic Compounds (New Hampton)-Invited Conference Lecturer (1966)

• Symposium on steric Effects in Organic Chemistry (Liblice-Prague)-Invited Symposium Lecturer (1967)

• American Chemical Society Tour Speaker (1969)

• U.S.-Japan Symposium on Organosulfur Chemistry (Takarazuka, Japan)-Invited Symposium Lecturer (1971)

• American Chemical Society National Meeting (Chicago), Division of Petroleum Chemistry Symposium-Invited Symposium Lecturer (1974)

• American Chemical Society Midwest Regional Meeting, Symposium on Carbanion Chemistry (Carbondale)-Invited Symposium Lecturer (1974)

• Polish Academy of Sciences Visiting Lecturer (Poland) (1978)

• Serbian Chemical Society (Belgrade)-Invited Lecturer (1978)

• International Symposium on Organic Sulfur Chemistry (Portoroz, Yugoslavia)-Invited Symposium Lecturer (1978)

• Symposium on Organic Sulfur Chemistry, University of Padua (Padua, Italy)-Invited Symposium Lecturer (1978)

• Symposium on New Carbanion Chemistry, American Chemical Society, Northeast Regional Meeting (Potadam, NY)-Invited Symposium Lecturer (1980)

• Fourth Gulf Coast Chemistry Conference (Pensacola Beach, Florida)-Invited Conference Lecturer (1980)

• Swedish Chemical Society (Uppsala)-Invited Lecturer (1982)

• Swedish Natural Sciences Research Foundation-Invited lectures: University of Uppsala, University of Gothenburg/Chalmers University, Umea University, Royal Technical University (Stockholm), University of Lund (1982)

• Norwegian Chemical Society/University of Oslo-Invited lecture (1982)

• Austrian Chemical Society/University of Vienna-Invited lecture (1982)

• National Council of Scientific Research (France)-Invited lectures: University of Marseille (series), University of Paris-Sud (1982)

• National Council of Scientific Research (CNRS)-Special Symposium on Electron transfer (Paris): Invited speaker (1982)

• Theory of Organic Reactions Conference (TOR85), Gargnano, Italy, Invited session chairman and speaker (1985)

• French National Committee selection as Professeur AssociČ, University of Aix- Marseille, France (1986)

• Polish Academy of Sciences Visiting Lecturer (1986)

• Distinguished Professorship, Southern Illinois University (1986...)

• Chinese Ministry of Education (People's Republic if China), invited to present series of research lectures: Northeast Normal University, Academia Sinica, etc. (1990).

• American Chemical Society, 25th Midwest Regional Meeting, Kansas State University, Symposium on Asymmetric Induction/Organic Synthesis, Invited Plenary Speaker (1990)

• Cram Symposium, in honor of Nobel Laureate Donald J. Cram's 75th Birthday, invited symposium speaker; University of California at Los Angeles (1994)

• Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Nobel Committee for Chemistry, invitation to submit proposals for the "Noble Prize for Chemistry for 1993"

• Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Nobel Committee for Chemistry, invitation to submit proposals for the "Noble Prize for Chemistry for 1994"