JHS graduate honored by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. David Corbin, a 1972 Jamestown High School graduate, is pictured with Catherine J. Murphy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champlain Chemistry Department chair.
Dr. David Corbin
Dr. David Corbin, a 1972 Jamestown High School graduate, is pictured with Catherine J. Murphy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champlain Chemistry Department chair.
Dr. David Corbin
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Dr. David R. Corbin, a 1972 graduate of Jamestown High School, was recently honored by alma mater, the Department of Chemistry of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Corbin was selected as one of 5 distinguished alumni from the Department of Chemistry's inaugural awarding. Corbin, son of Doris G. and the late R. Richard Corbin, was hired as a chemist at DuPont in 1981. He is a research scientist whose career has spanned more than four decades in chemistry, materials science and chemical engineering. After receiving his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the State University at Fredonia in 1976, he enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, completing his PhD in inorganic chemistry in 1980. Currently, he serves as an adjunct senior research scientist in the Wonderful Institute for Sustainable Engineering and the Department of Chemical and Energy Engineering at the University of Kansas, following a 35-year career at DuPont Central Research & Development, where he rose from staff scientist to senior research fellow.
Throughout his career, Corbin has made contributions in the fields of zeolite and molecular sieve chemistry, catalysis, separations, advanced materials and sustainable chemical processes. His work has helped advance technologies ranging from catalysts and gas separations to battery recycling, renewable fuels, membrane materials, and environmental remediation. He is the author or co-author of more than 160 scientific publications, several highly cited review articles and numerous papers in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and other leading journals. His research has been cited thousands of times by scientists around the world.
An accomplished inventor as well as a scientist, Corbin has been named on more than 70 U.S. patents, translating fundamental discoveries into technologies with real-world applications across the chemical industry. Corbin also actively volunteers doing STEM outreach at St. Peter Cathedral School in Wilmington, Del., where he and a team of retired scientists work with under-privileged middle school students.