Paul Reisberg

Assistant Professor Chemistry Department

email: preisberg@wellesley.edu

phone: 781 283 3041

office: Science Center 250

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how I think of myself

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Recent Stuff

Trip to China Knapp Fellowship

My views on the war (fall 02, spring 03)

 

Religious Thoughts

History

  • Born in Brooklyn 1951
  • Grew up in Massapequa, N.Y. Seinfeld was in my sister's class
  • Studied chemistry at R.P.I. worried more about Viet Nam than chemistry
  • Graduate work at Rice University in Biochemistry with John S. Olson where I studied hemoglobin
  • Post Doctoral work at Berkeley with Ken Sauer where I did picosecond studies of photosynthesis
  • Married, my wife Rachelle works at Northeastern University where she is the Director of Women in Engineering
  • We had two children while I've worked part time for: the Nuclear Freeze, Strategic Simulations Incorporated, Medication Services Incorporated, Cal. St. Univ. at Hayward, Science Discovery Museum and presently Wellesley College

 

 Science Discovery Museum

Personal Interests

 

I play with the Wellesley Table Tennis team, am active in the Unitarian Church, play strategy games with my kids, take walks through local conservation land, and particularly enjoy watching my students and kids perform in athletic events, music and dance recitals etc.

 

I played Lazer Wolf in the Open Door Theater's production of Fiddler on the Roof. My daughter was also in the show. I sometimes sing with the Acton Community Chorus.

Scientific Interests

 

In a broad sense I have been interested in "the secrets of life" since I was a child staring for hours through the microscopic watching pond organisms swim around. I wanted to know how chemicals could work together to make up a living thing. So, I went into biochemistry to find out. At the present, I'm particularly fascinated in the origin of life, prebiotic chemistry, early metabolisms, and cellular automata. Molecular modeling, bioenergetics, hemoglobin, photosynthesis and the biochemical treatment of disease are also areas I find especially interesting.

 

Presently Teaching


Spring 07 Chem 101 Understanding Drugs