The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois

The John C. Bailar Jr. Fellowship Fund provides fellowships for graduate students in the Department of Chemistry.  Known as "John C. Bailar Fellows", each student is chosen based upon numerous factors, including academic merit. 

John C. Bailar became an instructor at the University of Illinois in 1928 and began a sixty-three year career in Illinois - Department of Chemistry. He became associate professor in 1930 and full professor in 1943. Although interested in organic isomerism as a graduate student, it was while teaching a general chemistry course that he realized that isomerism, the occurrence of different compounds with the same chemical composition, is a general phenomenon that could also exist among inorganic compounds. He trained several generations of coordination chemists (ninety doctorates, thirty-eight postdoctoral fellows, and numerous bachelor’s and master’s degree candidates), making the University of Illinois, already well-known for organic chemistry in the United States, equally renowned for inorganic chemistry.

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