Biltmore Who's Who Selects Ray J. Butcher as a Top Ten Member of the Executive and Professional Registry
The selection recognizes Ray J. Butcher's commitment to excellence in Education.
- Winchester, VA-WV (1888PressRelease) July 30, 2011 - Ray J. Butcher, Professor at Howard University, has been selected as an Honored Member of the Biltmore Who's Who Executive and Professional Registry. The selection recognizes Ray J. Butcher's commitment to excellence in Education.
Butcher, who holds a Bachelor's Degree with honors in Chemistry and a Doctorate in Chemistry, both from the University of Canterbury, began working as an instructor/post doctoral fellow at the University of Virginia from 1974-76. From there, he moved to Georgetown University and later to his current school in 1977 as an assistant professor. He has been there ever since.
As professor of inorganic and structural chemistry, Butcher is involved in both undergraduate and graduate courses in general and inorganic chemistry. He is also in charge of the x-ray diffraction laboratory where they carry out diffraction studies on materials from their own university as well as materials sent from all over the world.
Having been trained in both teaching (Butcher earned a two-year diploma in teaching from Christchurch Teachers' College), and x-ray crystallography, he credits his mentors for guiding him into the career path that he has chosen.
Butcher currently has over eight hundred fifty published papers in referred international journals in his field, and aspires to hit the one thousand mark in the near future. He serves as co-editor of Acta Crystallographica E and has also served as editor of the Special Issue of Structural Chemistry, which was devoted to Structural Science in India in 2007. He was named the NASA summer faculty fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center from the summers of 1987-88, named Fulbright international scholar to India in the fall of 1989, Navy senior scientist summer faculty fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory from 1989-2000, visiting associate professor for the department of chemistry at the University of Canterbury from August to December of 1993, visiting senior scientist for the division of inorganic and structural chemistry at the Los Alamos National Library from February to June in 1994, Navy distinguished summer faculty fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory for the summers of 2001-04 and 2006-08 and Fulbright-Nehru fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India from August 2009 to January 2010. Butcher is also a member of the American Chemical Society, American Crystallographic Association and the New York Academy of Sciences. When Ray isn't busy working, he enjoys playing tennis.
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