Paul Bohn

Paul William Bohn (born 1955) is an American chemist who researches molecular nanotechnology. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Society for Applied Spectroscopy, as well as a co-editor of the Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry.

Early life and education Paul William Bohn was born in 1955 in Kentucky to parents Catherine and Joseph Robert Bohn. He grew up with one brother. He attended the University of Notre Dame, graduating in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry. He then attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison for a PhD in chemistry, graduating in 1981.

Career Bohn’s PhD training focused on the analytical chemistry of resist materials for x-ray lithography. His research primarily addresses molecular nanotechnology, particularly nanofluidics, combined electrochemistry and fluorescence spectroscopy of low-volume samples, nanophotonic/nanoelectronic devices, such as the electrochemical zero-mode waveguide, and multimodal chemical imaging of microbial communities. After finishing his PhD, Bohn worked at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey in the Special Materials Group from 1981 to 1983. He is the founding Director of the Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health, the Director of the Center for Bioanalytic Metrology – an NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center, and a founding member of the Indiana Consortium for Analytical Science and Engineering. He has also served as Program Chair, Chair, and Immediate Past Chair of the Analytical Division of the American Chemical Society.

Awards and honors He received the Coblentz Award in 1990 for his contributions to molecular spectroscopy, awarded to scientists younger than 36. He was also the recipient of the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Society Award in 2004, the 2005 Bomem-Michelson Award from the Coblentz Society, the 2010 Theophilus Redwood Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is the only person to have received the American Chemical Society Award in Spectrochemical Analysis (1997) and Electrochemistry (2017), and he is the recipient of the 2022 Charles N. Reilley Award of the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Society for Applied Spectroscopy.