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William F. Banholzer is a chemical engineer and Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at the Dow Chemical Company. He is most known for his leadership of industrial R&D organizations at both Dow Chemical Company and General Electric. He is also known for the discovery of methods related to production of synthetic diamond. In particular, the synthesis methods he developed allowed the production of isotopically pure diamonds. He also developed high temperature coatings, including those used in stealth technology. Banholzer received his bachelors of chemistry from Marquette University in 1979 and his Masters and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His PhD was granted in 1983. His graduate work was with R.A. Masel studying fundamental interactions with implications for catalysis. His thesis study was The Interaction of Nitric Oxide and Carbon Monoxide with Platinum. |
Awards
American Chemical Society Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership in Chemical
Research Management in 2014
The Council for Chemical Research Malcolm E. Pruitt Award in 2012
The Industrial Research Institute Maurice Holland Award in 2011
Memberships and Fellowships
National Academy of
Engineering, elected in 2002
American Chemical Society
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Recent Advisory Positions
Advisory Board in Chemistry
at the University of California, Berkeley
Advisory Board in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley
The Chemical Engineering Advisory Board at University of Wisconsin
The American Chemical Society President’s Commission on Chemical Education
The MIT Visiting Committee on Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.
Boards
Board of Directors, Dow Corning
Dow AgroScience Members Committee
Board of Directors Dow Foundation
Dow Kokam Board of Directors
National Academy Board on Energy and Environmental Science (BEES)
Research Interests
Diamond Synthesis, Stealth Coatings
