Prof. Douglass Taber to receive Allan R. Day Award

11:39 a.m., April 18, 2011--Douglass F. Taber, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Delaware, has been chosen as the 2011 recipient of the Allan R. Day Award from the Philadelphia Organic Chemists’ Club.

Taber will be presented the award at the club’s Oct. 27 meeting, when he will also deliver a research seminar to the audience. The award recognizes his contributions to the development of new methods for organic synthesis and the application of those methods in the total synthesis of physiologically active natural products.

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Taber earned his doctorate in organic chemistry at Columbia University and has been a member of the UD faculty since 1982.

The award is given in memory of Allan R. Day, who taught chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania for more than 40 years, becoming professor emeritus in 1968.