"Preface What is boron? The question itself may not seem very significant to many people, their introduction to the word "boron" could come as the butt of a joke; Conan O'Brien made jokes about boron (http:// www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/conanchemistry/) by calling it either "Boring Boron" or "Boron Moron." Many people may connect boron to borax, which is one of its natural sources. Some of us with longer memories might recall a popular television show called "Death Valley Days," aired in the 1950s, narrated by a young Ronald Reagan and sponsored by the 20 Mule Team Borax. Although boron is one of the closest neighbors to carbon in the periodic table, it has neither gained the importance nor the popularity of carbon. But boron is not just about borax. How many of us know that a regular intake of boron can lessen the chance of prostate cancer? How many of us know that boron plays a direct and critical role in combating cancer through a treatment called boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT)? If you were among those fortunate attendees of Professor M. Frederick Hawthorne's lecture at UCLA, titled "From Mummies to Rockets and on to Cancer Therapy," you had the opportunity to explore the power of boron chemistry. Boron has made a significant impact in our lives through its use in fertilizers, fungicides, soaps, and detergents as well as many household glassware utensils; thus boron is silently present everywhere. Those involved in boron chemistry are beginning to realize that this silence needs to be broken. This book, titled Boron Science: New Technologies and Applications, attempts to do just that"--
Boron for Living: Medicine
Boron for Living: Health and Nutrition
Boron for Living: Radioisotope
Boron for Living: Boron Neutron Capture Therapy
Boron for Energy: Energy Storage, Space and Other Applications
Boron for Chemistry and Catalysis: Catalysis and Organic Transformations
Narayan S. Hosmane was born in Gokarn, near Goa in Southern India, and is a B.S. and MS graduate of Karnatak University, India. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Inorganic Chemistry in 1974 from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, under the supervision of Professor Evelyn Ebsworth. After a brief postdoctoral research training in Professor Frank Glockling's laboratory at the Queen's University of Belfast (1974-75), he joined the Lambeg Research Institute in Northern Ireland, and then moved to USA in 1976 to conduct research in synthetic Boron Chemistry. After a brief postdoctoral work with W. E. Hill & F. A. Johnson at Auburn University and then with Russell Grimes at the University of Virginia, in 1979 he joined the faculty at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). In 1982 he joined the faculty at Southern Methodist University, where he became Professor of Chemistry in 1989. In 1998 he moved to Northern Illinois University as a Presidential Research Professor and is currently a Distinguished Research and Board of Trustees Professor.
Dr. Hosmane is widely acknowledged to have an international reputation as "one of the world leaders in an interesting, important, and very active area of boron chemistry that is related to Cancer Research" and as "one of the most influential boron chemists practicing today." Hosmane has received numerous international awards that include but are not limited to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundations Senior U.S. Scientist Research Prize twice (2001 & 2007); the Boron in the USA Award for Distinguished Achievements in Boron Science (1996); the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Distinguished Chair of Chemistry at the University of Hyderabad, India (2003); and the Gauss Professorship of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in Germany (2005). He has published over 270 papers in leading scientific journals.
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