
James Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, and Professor of Materials Science and Nano-Engineering at Rice University. A synthetic organic chemist, he received his BS in Chemistry from Syracuse University, his PhD in synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry from Purdue University, and postdoctoral training in synthetic organic chemistry at the University of Wisconsin and Stanford University. He has served on the faculty of the University of South Carolina and as a visiting scholar at Harvard University.
Tour has over 700 research publications and over 130 patent families.
He was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors in 2015 and was listed in “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” by Thomson Reuters in 2014. He has been named “Scientist of the Year” by R&D Magazine and was ranked one of the Top 10 chemists in the world over the past decade by a Thomson Reuters citations per publication index survey in 2009. The same year he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He won the Feynman Prize in Experimental Nanotechnology in 2008, the NASA Space Act Award in 2008 for his development of carbon nanotube reinforced elastomers, and the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society for his achievements in organic chemistry in 2007.
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The Nanotech Revolution

Innovations in Biotech
Killing Disease and Living Longer
Thermodynamics and the Origin of Life
Brian Miller Talks with James Tour on the Science & Faith Podcast
Life’s Origin: Lab + Information = Mind
Stephen Meyer with James Tour on the Science & Faith Podcast
We’re Still Clueless about the Origin of Life
An excerpt from The Mystery of Life's Origin: The Continuing Controversy
Are We Close to Discovering the Origin Of Life? James Tour vs Lee Cronin
James Tour and Lee Cronin on Unbelievable? with Justin Brierley
The Mystery of Life’s Origin
The Continuing Controversy
The Mystery of the Origin of Life
