Dr. James Tour is one of the great chemists of our time. Echoing Pascal, he writes “I do not know how to prove ID using my most sophisticated of analytical tools.” Confession Design Dialogue Science
James M. Tour
James M. Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, and Professor of Materials Science and Nano-Engineering at Rice University. A synthetic organic chemist, he received his BS in Chemistry from Syracuse University, his PhD in synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry from Purdue University, and postdoctoral training in synthetic organic chemistry at the University of Wisconsin and Stanford University. He has served on the faculty of the University of South Carolina and as a visiting scholar at Harvard University.
Dr. James Tour is one of the great chemists of our time. Echoing Pascal, he writes “I do not know how to prove ID using my most sophisticated of analytical tools.” Confession Design Dialogue Science
