Edward I. Solomon is a Monroe E. Spaght Professor of Chemistry at the Standford University Department of Chemistry. He received his BS in 1968 from Rensselaer University, and his Ph.D. in 1972 from Princeton University. His research emphasizes the detailed application of a wide variety of spectroscopic methods combined with molecular orbital calculations to probe the electronic structure of a transition metal complex and its relation to physical properties and reactivity. Three areas of physical-inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry are of general interest: chemical and spectroscopic studies of...