Donna Nelson: Difference between revisions

| birth_place = [[Eufaula, Oklahoma|Eufaula]], U.S.[[Oklahoma]], [[United States]]

'''Donna J. Nelson''' is ana [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] chemist and professor of [[chemistry]] at the [[University of Oklahoma]]. Nelson specializes in [[organic chemistry]], which she both researches and teaches. Nelson served as a science advisor to the AMC television show ''[[Breaking Bad]].''<ref name=CHM2013>{{cite journal|last1=Hicks|first1=Jesse|title=Bad Chemistry|journal=Chemical Heritage Magazine|date=Summer 2013|volume=31|issue=2|page=40|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/article/bad-chemistry|access-date=5 December 2016}}</ref> She was the 2016 President of the [[American Chemical Society]] (ACS) with her presidential activities focusing on and guided by communities in chemistry. Nelson's research focused on five primary topics, generally categorized in two areas, ''Scientific Research'' and ''America's Scientific Readiness''. Within Scientific Research, Nelson's topics have been on mechanistic patterns in alkene addition reactions and on [[Carbon nanotube#Single-walled|Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube (SWCNT)]] functionalization and analysis, yielding the first COSY NMR spectrum of covalently functionalized SWCNTs in solution. Under America's Scientific Readiness, she focuses on science education and impacting science by considering its communities; this includes classroom innovations and correcting organic chemistry textbook inaccuracies, on ethnic and gender diversity (the [[Nelson Diversity Surveys]]) among highly ranked science departments of research universities, and on improving the image and presentation of science and scientists to the public.<ref>Appearance on OCAST's science radio show,[http://www.ok.gov/ocast/documents/OI091108.pdf "Oklahoma Innovations"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721083856/http://www.ok.gov/ocast/documents/OI091108.pdf |date=2013-07-21 }},