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All the Best — UNL Chemistry Faculty Tell Their Stories

Author: Mark Griep

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Welcome to All the Best UNL Chemistry Faculty Tell Their Stories, an interview series with retired and former faculty from the Chemistry Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. For undergraduate and graduate students, listening to these stories will help you understand what motivates the professors who are teaching your courses and how to find a research position in their labs. For potential faculty, listening to these stories can help you understand the power structure of a department including how to obtain access to specialized instrumentation and how teaching assignments are made. For the broader public, these stories provide a perspective on one small corner of our vastly interesting world. Since retired and former faculty have experiences that reach back more than half a century, the series will provide a personal view how the department’s history evolved.

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George Sturgeon

George Sturgeon

2026-02-1901:14:02

Dr. George Sturgeon was a chemistry professor at the University of Nebraska -Lincoln for 39 years, from 1964 to 2003. During his time at UNL, he spent 15 years as the vice chair. I like to say that multiple chairs served under him. George was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, but grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota. Something in his youth must have sparked an interest in chemistry because he earned a bachelor's in that subject from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Then he traveled 870 miles east to Michigan State University in East Lansing where he earned his doctorate. Immediately after graduating, he joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1964 as an assistant professor but was soon promoted to associate professor. His lab studied metal fluoride compounds including xenon difluoride.
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