Klemperer received a B.A. in Chemistry from Harvard College in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry under the supervision of Professor F. A. Cotton from MIT in 1973. After eight years at Columbia University, he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at UrbanasChampaign where he is currently Professor of Chemistry. His research interests include dynamic stereochemistry, polyoxoanion chemistry, metal alkoxide chemistry, and inorganic materials chemistry, including zeolite, cement, and sol−gel chemistry. Craig G. Wall was born in Texas in 1967. He received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990 and a Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of North Carolina where he studied electrontransfer reactions in synthetic peptides under the direction of Professors Bruce W. Erickson and Thomas J. Meyer. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois with Professor Walter G. Klemperper where he using scanning tunneling microscopy to investigate selfassembled inorganic monolayers.