Richard Bader ‘53

Richard Bader earned a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958. He was a teacher at the University of Ottawa before beginning work at McMaster in the Department of Chemistry in 1963. He became Emeritus Professor in 1996 and continued to do research and to teach at McMaster. He developed a theory of atoms in molecules that is used by scientists in many fields of research and has lectured about this theory in many countries. Dr. Bader’s numerous awards include the A.P. Sloan Memorial Fellowship Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (‘79–‘80) and the John C. Polanyi Lecture Award of the Chemical Society of Canada, 1997. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (‘80) and was a Miller Research Professor at the University of California at Berkeley (‘93). In 1995, he received the McMaster University Distinguished Alumni Award.

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