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...Timothy M. Swager, the department head, said on Saturday that Jacobsen formally accepted MIT’s offer on Oct. 10 and will be leaving Harvard at the end of the academic year to become the Firmenich professor of chemistry at MIT. Jacobsen, however, told The Crimson in an e-mail that he had yet to make a final decision on where he would work next year. He declined to comment further...
...Jacobsen does move down Mass. Ave to MIT, he will join what Swager called the institute’s “dream team” of reaction development researchers...
...have quite a team and now we have Eric Jacobsen, so we really have in reaction development a team of people unparalleled in the history of chemistry, in my view,” Swager said in a telephone interview. The team now includes organic chemists Stephen L. Buchwald, Gregory C. Fu, Rick L. Danheiser, Timothy F. Jamison, and Mohammad Movassaghi, and inorganic chemists Richard R. Schrock, Christopher C. Cummins, and Jonas Peters...
...Although Jacobsen's departure would be a loss for Harvard, Swager said that MIT and Harvard's chemistry departments are on very good terms and that collaboration would continue between these two giants in the science world...
...been a wonderful teacher at Harvard," Swager said of Jacobsen. "I feel bad about Harvard's loss, but I think our two departments have a lot of friendships between them. Our departments will continue to have great scholarly exchanges over the years...