# George Whitesides Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Research Professor (Not Accepting Graduate Students) ![whitesides.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/whitesides.jpg?itok=MNpP8iHs) location\_on 12 Oxford StreetCambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [617-495-9430](tel:617-495-9430) email laptop\_windows [Whitesides Research Group](http://gmwgroup.harvard.edu/) Laboratory Manager/Administrator: [Melissa LeGrand](mailto:mlegrand@gmwgroup.harvard.edu) George M. Whitesides was born August 3, 1939 in Louisville, KY. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1960 and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (with J.D. Roberts) in 1964. He was a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1982. He joined the Department of Chemistry of Harvard University in 1982, and was Department Chairman 1986-89, and Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry from 1982-2004. He is now the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor. - ## Faculty [Emeritus](/affiliates-lecturers-preceptors-and-other-faculty/emeritus) - ## Availability for Students [Not Accepting Graduate Students](/availability-students/not-accepting-students) - ## Research Group Affiliations [Whitesides Group Members](/labs/whitesides-group) - ## Research Areas [Analytical](/research-areas/analytical) [Energy Related](/research-areas/energy-related) [Inorganic](/research-areas/inorganic) [Materials](/research-areas/materials) [Origins of Life](/research-areas/origins-life) [Physical/Chemical Physics](/research-areas/physical-chemical-physics)