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41st IUPAC Council Meeting

Nominee for the Bureau

Dr. E. P. Przybylowicz (USA)–Reappointment

Dr. E. P. Przybylowicz

Education and Career: A native of Detroit, Michigan, Dr. Przybylowicz received a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. degree in analytical chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1991, after over 35 years with the Eastman Kodak Company, Dr. Przybylowicz retired as Senior Vice President and Director of Research. He joined Kodak as a research chemist in the Chemistry Division at the Research Laboratories in September 1956. During his career, he had increasing technical and managerial responsibilities in the basic sciences, engineering, and product development as well as in the clinical and copy products businesses. He became Assistant Director of Kodak Research Labs in 1983, and he was named Director of Research and elected as Senior Vice President of the company in August, 1985.

Dr. Przybylowicz has been active in a number of programs that are focused on the commercialization of technology and in stimulating closer working relationships between industry and academia. From 1987 to 1997, he was a member of the Board of the New York State Science and Technology Foundation, a state foundation that has programs designed to stimulate the transfer of technology between universities and industry. He is also a Commissioner of the U.S.-Polish Joint Fund for Cooperation in Science and Engineering, a program that fosters the collaboration of Polish and U.S. scientists. In the past decade, he cochaired conferences and workshops on technology transfer in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Russia.

From April 1994 to March 1996, Dr. Przybylowicz was Director of the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is currently on the Industrial Advisory Committee for the Center. In March 1996, he became Assistant to the Dean, College of Science, Rochester Institute of Technology. He has published over 20 technical articles and 2 books in the fields of chemistry and photography, and he holds 4 patents in related fields.

Dr. Przybylowicz was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1990, and he is active on a number of National Research Council committees. In 1997, he chaired the Panel on Black and Smokeless Powder, a study directed by the Federal Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. The report of this panel was released in October 1998. He is currently a member of the Chemical Sciences Roundtable of the National Research Council. He is an emeritus member of the Industrial Research Institute. He also serves on a number of university visiting committees in engineering and the sciences.

IUPAC Activities: Since 1993, Dr. Przybylowicz has been a member of the IUPAC Finance Committee and is currently its Chairman. In 1997, he was elected to the IUPAC Bureau and Executive Committee, the governance bodies of IUPAC. He has served on the U.S. National Committee for IUPAC since 1994, and he is currently its Chairman.

Awards: Dr. Przybylowicz is the recipient of numerous awards. The Rochester Engineering Society awarded him the 1992 Leo East Award as "Engineer of the Year." In 1993, he was the recipient of the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce "Civic Award in Science and Technology", and he won the 1994 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Michigan, Department of Chemistry. In 1995, he was elected Honorary Member of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology "for his lifelong contributions to the advancement of imaging science and engineering, from his technical contributions at Kodak, to his work to enhance industry/university/government cooperation and to expand education in imaging." In 1996, he was awarded the Malcolm E. Pruitt Award of the Council on Chemical Research for the promotion of university-industry relations.

 

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