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Professor James Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, and Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Professor Tour has over 850 research publications, over 150 granted patents, and over 100 pending patents. His h-index is 181, with total citations over 150,000. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His research group works in materials science, energy, medicine, electronics, and single-molecule nanomachines. He founded seventeen companies based on his academic research, three of which are now public companies.
For ten years, Professor Tour led weekly Bible studies in the living units of maximum-security prisons. He has been teaching a weekly Bible study to college students for the past twenty-seven years, and he and his wife, Shireen, have served about seventy-five meals to students each week in their home during that time.
Learn more about the intersection of science and faith on Dr. Tour's YouTube channel, The Science and Faith podcast, and his weekly newsletter.