Professor Philip B. Shevlin is an American experimental chemist, based primarily at Auburn University.
Professor Shevlin is an internationally recognized research scientist. His special field of expertise is centered on the chemistry of high energy reactive intermediates. These intermediates include atomic carbon, carbenes, monovalent carbon species and other energetic molecules.
Professor Shevlin is also involved in the synthesis of a variety of carbocyclic and heterocyclic nucleoside analogs.
Curriculum vitae
1965-1966 Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory
1966-1968 U.S. Army
1968-1970 Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory
1970-1974 Assistant Professor, Auburn University
1974-1979 Associate Professor, Auburn University
1979 -1998 Professor, Auburn University
1998- 2002 Mosley Professor of Science and Humanities, Auburn University
2002- Professor Emeritus, Auburn university
Education
B. S. Lafayette College, Easton, PA, 1961
M. S. Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1963
Ph.D. Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1966
Books
Shevlin, P. B. and Campbell, O. A.. Concepts of Science; Kendall/Hunt: Dubuque, IA, 2nd Edition, 1995.
Shevlin, P. B.,Concepts of Science; Kendall/Hunt: Dubuque, IA, 1993.