Bassam Z Shakhashiri

Bassam Z. Shakhashiri is a chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his A.B. from Boston University in 1960, his M.Sc. from the University of Maryland in 1965 and his Ph.D. in 1968. He is the first holder of the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has been a professor since 1970. He has been a member of the American Chemical Society since 1961.