Jack Solomon
Rotary District 7980
Jack joined the East Hampton Rotary Club in 2006 and was President in 2009-10. During his Presidency and since he has involved the club in First Lego League a STEM program for Middle School students. His Presidency was also marked by the awarding of Scholarships, participation in Invention Convention, Support for polio effort, a Past Presidents Day, flower planting at Memorial School and many other events and activities. He was an AG from 2012-2015. From 2015 to the present he has been co-chairman of Youth Services for District 7980.
Dr. Jack Solomon is retired from Praxair Inc. He was Chairman of Vision2020 for the Chemical Industry from 2002 to 2009. He received a BS in Chemistry degree from MIT in 1963 and a PhD from Columbia University in 1967. He has been awarded five patents. Jack is the winner of the ACS Hank Whalen Award for 2005 and led a Vision2020 effort which resulted in the roadmap, “Chemical Industry R&D Roadmap for Nanomaterials by Design:From Fundamentals to Function. He organized the “Presidential Symposium: Commercial Aspects of Nanotechnology” at the American Chemical Society Annual Meeting in March 2004. In addition he was a participant in the National Research Council study “New Directions in Manufacturing”, a workshop held on March 27 and 28, 2003. Jack gave the Dow/Union Carbide Reaction Engineering and Catalysis Seminar honoring Jean B. Cropley on March 11, 2005, “Energy Issues—An Economic Analysis”. Jack was also a member of a National Research Council panel studying the destruction of secondary wastes from the destruction of chemical weapons in 2006. Jack was a session leader at the 2007 American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy Summer Study. The session contained practical papers on saving energy in industrial operations.
