Rice's Norman Hackerman Wins ACS Parsons Award

In 1945, the state of Texas had a lot of future going for it. World War II was over and the state's massive resources began drawing thousands of entrepreneurial young folks to its significant acreage. One of the breed was a Baltimore native named Norman Hackerman, who at the age of 33 rode in to carve out a life studying the electrochemistry of corrosion and a career in higher education. He's been there ever since and latter-day Texans have been much obliged for his decision. Hackerman is in the first year of retirement after 15 years as president of William Marsh Rice University. And among other things he is now in the process of helping create a new Texas economy based not so much on oil and cattle as on the country's scientific and technological revolution. Hackerman is 1987 winner of the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award, presented by the American Chemical Society for outstanding public ...