Jonathan W. Steed was born in London, UK in 1969. He
obtained his B. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees at University College London,
working with Derek Tocher on coordination and organometallic
chemistry directed towards inorganic drugs and new metal-mediated
synthesis methodologies. He graduated in 1993, winning the Ramsay
Medal for his Ph. D. work. Between 1993 and 1995 he was a NATO
postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama and University of
Missouri, working with Jerry Atwood. In 1995 he was appointed as a
Lecturer at Kings College London and in 1998 he was awarded the
Royal Society of Chemistry Meldola Medal. In 2004 he joined Durham
University where he is currently Professor of Inorganic Chemistry.
As well as Supramolecular Chemistry (2000) Professor Steed
is co-author of the textbook Core Concepts in Supramolecular
Chemistry and Nanochemistry (2007) and more than 200 research
papers. He has published a large number of reviews, book chapters
and popular articles as well as two major edited works, the
Encyclopaedia of Supramolecular Chemistry (2004) and
Organic Nanostructures (2008). He has been an Associate
Editor of New Journal of Chemistry since 2001 and is the
recipient of the Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in
Postgraduate Teaching (2006). His interests are in supramolecular
sensing and molecular materials chemistry.
Jerry L. Atwood was born in Springfield MO, USA in 1942.
He attended Southwest Missouri State University, where he obtained
his B. S. degree in 1964. He carried out graduate research with
Galen Stuckey at the University of Illinois, where he obtained his
Ph. D. in 1968. He was immediately appointed as an Assistant
Professor at the University of Alabama, where he rose through
Associate Professor (1972) to full Professor in 1978. In 1994 he
was appointed Professor and Chair at the University of Missouri
- Columbia. Professor Atwood is the author of more than 600
scientific publications. His research interests revolve around a
number of themes in supramolecular chemistry including gas storage
and separation and the control of confi ned space. He has also
worked on the self-assembly of noncovalent capsules, liquid
clathrate chemistry, anion binding and fundamental solid state
interactions, and is a world-renown crystallographer. He co-founded
the journals Supramolecular Chemistry (1992) and Journal
of Inclusion Phenomena (1983). He has edited an enormous range
of seminal works in supramolecular chemistry including the fi
ve-volume series Inclusion Compounds (1984 and 1991) and the
11-volume Comprehensive Supramolecular Chemistry (1996). In
2000 he was awarded the Izatt-Christensen Prize in Supramolecular
Chemistry.
