Chemistry chair Donna Blackmond, PhD, elected to oldest natural sciences and medicine academy

Donna Blackmond, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry on the California campus, has been elected to the prestigious German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. The Leopoldina was founded in 1652, making it the oldest continuously existing academy of natural sciences and medicine in the world. Members have included Marie Curie, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Max Planck, among many other notable scientists.