Devon W. Meek

Meek was born in Kentucky, and received his BS in chemistry from Berea College. His MS and Ph.D. were received at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he studied sulfoxide complexes of transition metals under Professor Russell S. Drago.{{Cite journal|last1=Meek|first1=Devon W.|last2=Straub|first2=Darel K.|last3=Drago|first3=Russell S.|date=December 1960|title=Transition Metal Ion Complexes of Dimethyl Sulfoxide|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja01508a012|journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society|volume=82|issue=23|pages=6013–6016|doi=10.1021/ja01508a012|issn=0002-7863|url-access=subscription}} He served for 27 years in the chemistry department of OSU, rising eventually to department chair. Meek's research group studied synthetic inorganic complexes - especially those of the Rare-earth elements and late metals{{Cite journal|last1=Springer|first1=Charles S.|last2=Meek|first2=Devon W.|last3=Sievers|first3=Robert E.|date=June 1967|title=Rare earth chelates of 1,1,1,2,2,3,3-heptafluoro-7,7-dimethyl-4,6-octanedione|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ic50052a009|journal=Inorganic Chemistry|volume=6|issue=6|pages=1105–1110|doi=10.1021/ic50052a009|issn=0020-1669|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last1=Green|first1=Lisa M.|last2=Meek|first2=Devon W.|date=March 1989|title=Synthesis, characterization and reactivity of alkoxide and hydroxide complexes of rhodium(I) and iridium(I)|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/om00105a013|journal=Organometallics|volume=8|issue=3|pages=659–666|doi=10.1021/om00105a013|issn=0276-7333|url-access=subscription}} - and spectroscopy.{{Cite journal|last1=Meek|first1=Devon W.|last2=Mazanec|first2=Terry J.|date=September 1981|title=Determination of structural and dynamic aspects of organometallic and coordination chemistry by phosphorus-31 NMR spectroscopy|url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ar00069a002|journal=Accounts of Chemical Research|volume=14|issue=9|pages=266–274|doi=10.1021/ar00069a002|issn=0001-4842|url-access=subscription}}

Meek's papers are held in a special collection of the OSU library.{{Cite web|title=Special Collections Registry|url=https://library.osu.edu/collections/RG.40.157/|access-date=2020-07-25|website=library.osu.edu}}

With William Thomas Lipponcott and Frank H. Verhoek, Meek authored an undergraduate text in 1970, Experimental General Chemistry.{{Cite book|last=LIPPINCOTT|first=William Thomas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-hGDzQEACAAJ|title=Experimental general chemistry. [By] W.T. Lippincott, Devon W. Meek, Frank H. Verhoek. 2nd ed|date=1974|publisher=Saunders|isbn=978-0-7216-5788-2|language=en}}

• 1981 - Guggenheim Fellowship{{Cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Devon W. Meek|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/devon-w-meek/|access-date=2020-07-24|language=en-US}}

The Meek Lecture, given annually at OSU since 1989, has honored distinguished chemists including Dennis C. Liotta, Jay Keasling,{{Cite web|title=Jay D Keasling {{!}} University of California, Berkeley - Academia.edu|url=http://berkeley.academia.edu/JayKeasling/CurriculumVitae|access-date=2020-07-25|website=berkeley.academia.edu}} Ralph F. Hirschmann, Alfred Bader, Allison A. Campbell,{{Cite web|title=For President-Elect: Allison A. Campbell|url=https://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i36/President-Elect-AllisonCampbell.html|access-date=2020-07-25|website=Chemical & Engineering News|language=en}} Edward J. J. Grabowski, and William Nugent.

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