Donna Nelson

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Donna Nelson

Chemistry

#559

World Rank

#990

Historical Rank

#256

USA Rank

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Donna Nelson's Degrees

• PhD Chemistry University of Texas at Austin

Why Is Donna Nelson Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Donna J. Nelson is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma. Nelson specializes in organic chemistry, which she both researches and teaches. Nelson served as a science advisor to the AMC television show Breaking Bad. She was the 2016 President of the American Chemical Society with her presidential activities focusing on and guided by communities in chemistry. Nelson's research focused on five primary topics, generally categorized in two areas, Scientific Research and America's Scientific Readiness. Within Scientific Research, Nelson's topics have been on mechanistic patterns in alkene addition reactions and on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube functionalization and analysis, yielding the first COSY NMR spectrum of covalently functionalized SWCNTs in solution. Under America's Scientific Readiness, she focuses on science education and impacting science by considering its communities; this includes classroom innovations and correcting organic chemistry textbook inaccuracies, on ethnic and gender diversity among highly ranked science departments of research universities, and on improving the image and presentation of science and scientists to the public.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Donna Nelson?

Donna Nelson is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of Texas at Austin
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• University of Oklahoma