Galen D. Stucky, professor of chemistry at the University of California-Santa Barbara, will present the Herbert H. Johnson Memorial Lectures at Cornell University starting Nov. 6.

All three lectures will be at 4:30 p.m. in Kimball Hall B11, and all are open to the public, without charge.

The talks are: Nov. 6, "Mesoscale Synthesis, Structure and Function"; Nov. 7, "Light and Nanostructured Composite Materials"; and Nov. 8, "Composite Materials Synthesis: Learning from Nature."

Stucky received his Ph.D. in 1962 from Iowa State University. After postdoctoral study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he held positions at the University of Illinois, Sandia National Laboratory and DuPont Central Research and Development Department. He joined UC-Santa Barbara's chemical faculty in 1985.

Stucky is active in the American Chemical Society, having served as associate editor of the Journal of Inorganic Chemistry and chair of the society's inorganic division.