Special Material: Interview ft. Dr. James Tour
Is life just chemistry?
Is even the chemistry of life understood?
Do we have real explanations in Science to how life originated from non-life and how it became what it is today?
Is Abiogenesis and Evolution a done deal in science?
Can a practicing scientist at the frontier of science see undeniable compelling evidence of God in his work?!
I had Dr. James Tour, the renowned top notch Synthetic Chemist, and a man of faith in God, with me on Finding Truth Channel where he gave wonderful answers to those questions and much more!
Watch the interview and share with loved ones, and give me your answers in the comments section!
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Dr. James Tour is a renowned Synthetic Chemist, named “Scientist of the Year” by R&D Magazine in 2013, and was ranked one of the top 10 chemists in the world over the past decade by Thomson Reuters in 2009.
Dr. Tour went public with scientific criticism to Origins of Life research, and the media ramp up of the real status quo of what we know about origins of life. He has recently given a full course about Abiogenesis on his channel @DrJamesTour : https://www.youtube.com/c/DrJamesTour.
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About Dr. Tour:
T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Rice University
Smalley-Curl Institute and the NanoCarbon Center
Career:
Tour’s work is primarily focused on carbon materials chemistry and nanotechnology. Tour has over 700 research publications and over 140 patent families, with an H-index of 156 with total citations over 110,000.
Awards:
Tour became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2020 and was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Centenary Prize for innovations in materials chemistry with applications in medicine and nanotechnology. Tour was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors in 2015. He was named among “The 50 most Influential Scientists in the World Today” by TheBestSchools.org in 2014. Tour was named “Scientist of the Year” by R&D Magazine in 2013. Tour won the ACS Nano Lectureship Award from the American Chemical Society in 2012. Tour was ranked one of the top 10 chemists in the world over the past decade by Thomson Reuters in 2009. That year, he was also made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Other notable awards won by Tour include the 2008 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, the NASA Space Act Award in 2008 for his development of carbon nanotube reinforced elastomers, the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) for his achievements in organic chemistry in 2007, the Small Times magazine’s Innovator of the Year Award in 2006, the Southern Chemist of the Year Award from ACS in 2005, the Honda Innovation Award for Nanocars in 2005, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1990, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 1989. In 2005, Tour’s journal article “Directional Control in Thermally Driven Single-Molecule Nanocars” was ranked the Most Accessed Journal Article by the American Chemical Society. Tour has twice won the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching at Rice University in 2007 and 2012. In 2016, Tour was listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.
Education:
Tour received degrees from Syracuse University (BS, 1981), Purdue University (PhD, 1986) and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1986–1987) and Stanford University (1987–1988).
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