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SOLEC 2006 Conference Proceedings
Description:
In 2006, members of the Great Lakes Green Chemistry Working group organized a workshop at the State of the Lakes Conference in Milwaukee, WI. The workshop featured keynote presentations by Dr. John Warner founder of the Warner-Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry and Berkeley Cue,recently retired from the Pfizer Pharmaceutical Corporation.
Date Published:
Sat, 03/11/2006
Resource type:
Conference proceedings
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| warner_solec2006_keynote.pdf | 1.23 MB |
| cue_solec2006_keynote.pdf | 3.15 MB |
| csboyd_solec2006_breakout.pdf | 126.93 KB |