Books By Michael B. (University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA) Smith - Author

Professor Michael B. Smith was born in Detroit, Michigan, and moved to Madison Heights, Virginia, in 1957. He graduated from Amherst County High School in 1964. He worked at Old Dominion Box Factory for a year after graduation and then started college at Ferrum Jr. College in 1965. He graduated in 1967 with an A.A. and began studies at Virginia Tech later that year, graduating with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1969. He worked as a chemist at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co, Newport News, Virginia, from 1969 until 1972. In 1972 he began studies in graduate school at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, working with Prof. Joseph Wolinsky. He graduated in 1977 with a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. He took a postdoctoral position at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, working on the isolation of anti-cancer agents from marine animals with Professor Bob Pettit. After one year, he took another postdoctoral position at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, working on the synthesis of the a