William F. Little

William F. Little was born and grew up in Hickory, North Carolina, a small town in the western part of the state. His father had five children by his first wife and four byhis second. Little, Senior, was a professor of languages and provost at Lenoir-Rhyne College until the economics of nine children forced him to go to work for a savings andloan, of which he eventually became CEO. William loved living in a small town, and he loved his early teachers. He had no chemistry classes in high school, as the school wastoo small, but he had physics and biology. In college he discovered chemistry. A brother, a sister, and two nephews also went into chemistry. He attended Lenoir-Rhyne College, majoring in mathematics, biology, and chemistry. He loved chemistry and wanted to stay a chemist rather than going to medical school.

During the Korean Conflict, James Morehead III established what was then the Morehead Scholarships. Because graduate students could be drafted Morehead gave his first eight awards to graduate students, one of whom was Little. Little entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a student in physical chemistry, but afterfinishing his Master's degree, he switched to organic chemistry for his PhD, which he also received from the University of North Carolina. He paid for his own postdoc atUniversity College London, where he was interested in aromatic nitration. While he was in London Reed University hired him to teach. After a year there, studying apocynol, he was wooed back to North Carolina.

During his first year on the faculty he was persuaded to join the Research Triangle Foundation, which was attempting to establish a large park for research entities. He spent summers and chemical society meetings recruiting companies to expand into theTriangle; he ended up with an extensive network of business and banking leaders in the state and was a very successful marketer. Because there was an intermingling ofUniversity interests with those of the Park, the University gave Little a new post as Vice Chancellor of Research Administration. After several years in that position Little became chairman of the chemistry department. In that position he brought in a large number of faculty and new students; he revised the curriculum; he got a new chemistry laboratory built; he overrode the University's policy of equal pay raises and established pay for merit. After five years there, he became head of the Research, Development, and Public Service Office, helping originate a university-wide capital funds drive that exceeded itsgoal.

Little's long career has included a number of board memberships and many awards; but this career has always remained entwined with the Research Triangle Park Foundation and its Selection Committee; with the University of North Carolina, both its administration and its chemistry department; with the leaders of North Carolina's government and business communities; with individual faculty members; and, to a much lesser extent, to the chemistry where it all began. As he is fond of saying, "whenever I was asked to do anything I would salute the quarterdeck" to serve the North Carolina he loved.

1950	B.S., Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Lenoir-Rhyne College
1952	M.S., Physical Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1954	Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Reed College

1955 - 1956 Instructor

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1956 - 1957 Instructor

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1957 - 1961 Assistant Professor

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1959 - 1961 Associate Dean, Graduate School for Research Administration

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1961 - 1965 Associate Professor

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1965 - 1970 Chairman, Department of Chemistry

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1965 - 1977 Professor

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1972 - 1973 Chairman, Division of the Natural Sciences

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1973 - 1978 Vice Chancellor, Development and Public Service

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1975 Initial Registered Agent, The Arts and Sciences Foundation

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1975 - 1979 Vice President, The Arts and Sciences Foundation

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1977 - 1996 University Distinguished Professor (retired)

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1983 Acting Executive Director, The Arts and Sciences Foundation

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1991 - 1992 Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs

The University of North Carolina (16-institution system)

1992 - 1996 Senior Vice President and Vice President, Academic Affairs

The Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina

1957 - 1958 Associate Director, Chemistry

The Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina

1987 - 2002 Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board

The Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina

1990 - Present Corporate Secretary

Research Triangle Institute

1968 - 1977 Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board

Research Triangle Institute

1998 - 2003 Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board

Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies, Inc.

1975 - 1982 Vice President

Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies, Inc.

1982 - 1987 President

The John Motley Morehead Foundation

1978 - 1989 Chairman, Central Selection Committee (Scholarships)

1951 - 1954	Morehead Scholarship, University of North Carolina
1970	Outstanding Alumnus Award, Lenoir-Rhyne College
1980	Thomas Jefferson Award, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1984	Doctor of Science Honorary Degree, Lenoir-Rhyne College
1987	Order of the Golden Fleece (honorary), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1988	Marcus E. Hobbs Distinguished Service Award, American Chemical Society, North Carolina Section
1990	Sam Ragan Award for Contributions to the Arts in North Carolina
1991	Faculty Service Award, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alumni Association
1996	Order of the Long Leaf Pine, North Carolina
2003	Medicinal Chemistry Building at Research Triangle Institute named W.F. Little Laboratories
2003	Last road in Research Triangle Park named Little Drive

Arthur Daemmrich

Arthur Daemmrich is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School and a senior research fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. His research examines science, medicine, and the state, with a focus on advancing theories of risk and regulation through empirical research on the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical sectors. At HBS he also plays an active role in an interdisciplinary Healthcare Initiative, advancing scholarship and developing applied lessons for the business of creating and delivering health services and health-related technologies. Daemmrich was previously the director of the Center for Contemporary History and Policy at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. He earned a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University in 2002 and has held fellowships at the Social Science Research Council/Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the Chemical Heritage Foundation. He has published widely on pharmaceutical and chemical regulation, biotechnology business and policy, innovation, and history of science.

Arnold Thackray

Arnold Thackray founded the Chemical Heritage Foundation and served the organization as president for 25 years. He is currently CHF’s chancellor. Thackray received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history of science from Cambridge University. He has held appointments at Cambridge, Oxford University, and Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In 1983 Thackray received the Dexter Award from the American Chemical Society for outstanding contributions to the history of chemistry. He served for more than a quarter century on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the founding chairman of the Department of History and Sociology of Science and is currently the Joseph Priestley Professor Emeritus.