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FRED WUDL, Professor of Chemistry and Materials and Co-Director of the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids (CPOS) at the University of Califor nia, Santa Barbara (UCSB), received his B.S. (1964) and Ph.D. (1967) degree from the University of Califor nia, Los Angeles (UCLA) where his dissertation work was done with Professor Dona ld J. Cram. After postdoctoral re search with R.B. Woodward at Harvard, he joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo. He then moved, first in 1972 to AT&T Bell Laboratories, and subsequently to UCSB in 1982, and then UCLA from 1997 to 2006. He is widely known for his work on organic conductors and supe rconductors with the disc overy of the electronic conductivity of the precursor to the first organic meta l and superconductor. His interest in electronically conducting polymers resulted in discovery of the fi rst transparent organic conductor and the first self- doped polymers. Currently he is interested in the op tical and electrooptical properties of processable conjugated polymers as well as in the organic chemistry of fullerenes and the design and preparation of self-mending and self-healing materials. He has received numerous awards and honors and has published over 500 papers