James Mayer named the Charlotte Fitch Roberts Professor of Chemistry

September 19, 2016

The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that James M. Mayer has been named as the Charlotte Fitch Roberts Professor of Chemistry. Please see the article from Yale News.

Charlotte Fitch Roberts earned her doctorate in chemistry in 1894, as one of the first seven women to receive Ph.D. degrees from Yale. She became a professor at Wellesley College and was the author of the text “The Development and Present Aspects of Stereochemistry” (1896).