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University of Pittsburgh

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Sanford Asher served as Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, joining in 1980 as Assistant Professor, advancing to Distinguished Professor in 2006, and retiring as Distinguished Professor Emeritus after 43 years of service. He earned a B.A. in chemistry from the University of Missouri, St. Louis in 1971, a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Applied Physics at Harvard University from 1977 to 1980. He also held an adjunct professorship in chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University and served as co-director of the University of Pittsburgh Materials Research Center. Additionally, he acted as scientific advisor to the Taiwan Association of Raman Spectroscopy and member of the University of Pittsburgh Research Council.