Marc Zimmer

Marc Zimmer (born July 26, 1961) is the Jean Tempel '65 Professor of Chemistry at Connecticut College. He has published seven books, written articles on science and medicine for the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Huffington Post, etc. He has been interviewed or quoted in the Economist, Science, Nature etc.

Zimmer curates the GFP website, tweets about GFP (@lightUpScience) and he has published over 60 research papers about cow flatulence, computational chemistry and bioluminescence in fireflies and jellyfish. Zimmer is the initiator and director of the Connecticut College Science Leaders program, a program to increase the number of women and minority students graduating from the college with a degree and research experience in the sciences.

Boards, awards, etc Science and the Skeptic on 2023 longlist Russell Freedman Award for Nonfiction for a Better World! An Award of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. 2020 longlist AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Middle Grades Science Books Guest on NPR's "Where we Live" show about bioluminescence Professor, Semester at Sea, Spring ’12, Summer '13, Fall '16 and Fall '23 voyages ACS Western Connecticut Visiting Scientist Award for 2013 The Princeton Review's 'Best 300 Professors', 2012 Huffington Post’s one of "13 of the best college professors in the country", 2012 Carnegie Foundation and Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Connecticut, Professor of the Year, 2007 John S. Burlew Connecticut Valley Section Award to recognize outstanding contributions to chemistry, 2005 Program Chair, Inorganic Division, American Chemical Society, 1999-2003