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3 Overview of the Catalysis Science Program Portfolio
Pages 31-42

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... Office of Basic Energy Science (BES) Catalysis Science Program's research portfolio in terms of the number and value of research grants and the characteristics of the principal investigators that have been funded by the program since 1987.
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... RESEARCH GRANTS For FY 1999 to FY 2007, in terms of funding and the numbers of grants, heterogeneous catalysis and homogeneous catalysis comprised an average of 70 percent and 30 percent of the Catalysis Science Program portfolio, respectively (Table 3-1)
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... . On the basis of the information provided above, the Catalysis Science Program portfolio appears to have a good distribution overall in its funding of basic research in the broad categories of homogeneous catalysis and heterogeneous catalysis.
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... SOURCE: Office of Basic Energy Sciences Catalysis Science Program staff. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS This section describes the characteristics of the principal investigators who received funding from the Catalysis Science Program during the past eight years (FY 1999 to FY 2007)
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... TABLE 3-3 Catalysis Science Program University-Affiliated Principal Investigators by Academic Title, FYs 1999–2007 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 Total 87 93 102 122 113 Assistant professor 8 7 9 12 5 Associate professor 8 10 10 15 19 Professor 63 67 70 82 77 Othera 8 9 13 13 12 a Chair, distinguished professor, adjunct professor, principal scientist, or emeritus professor. NOTES: Includes national laboratory personnel who are affiliated with a university.
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... patents that originated in the United States. 3 In 2005, Jorge Hirsch, of the University of California, San Diego, devised an algorithm, known as the h-index, that calculates the impact of a scientist's work.
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... b Receives research funding from the Catalysis Science Program. c Funded by the Catalysis Science Program since 1987.
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... Of these, nine are from the United States, and all nine are funded by the Catalysis Science Program (and most with long-term funding)
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... Texas A&M University United States Waynea Hutchings, Graham University of Wales UK Iglesia, Enriquea University of California, Berkeley United States Iwasawa, Yasuhiro University of Tokyo Japan Jacobs, P Leuven University Belgium Lercher, Johannes Technical University of Munich Germany Li, Can Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics China Neurock, Matthewa University of Virginia United States Nørskov, Jens Denmark Technical University Denmark Prins, Roel ETH Zurich Switzerland Schmidt, Lanny D.a University of Minnesota United States Somorjai, Gabor A.a University of California, Berkeley United States Topsøe, Henrik Haldor Topsøe Denmark van Santen, Rutger Eindhoven University of Netherlands Technology a Receives research funding from the Catalysis Science Program.
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... This is probably due to the fact that multiple sources of funding for homogeneous catalysis research exist in the United States, particularly at the National Institutes of Health. However, several BES-funded principal investigators on the list (such as Bercaw, Bergman, Marks, and Schrock)
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... research. Overall, the Catalysis Science Program portfolio (research grants and principal investigators)


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