University of Pittsburgh
Department of Chemistry
2010 Alumni Awardee
H. LEE NOBLE (BS 1962) H. Lee Noble earned his bachelor’s
degree in chemistry from Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences
in 1962. Following a 25 year career with the Bayer
Corporation, Mr. Noble retired as executive vice president.
While at Bayer, he served as board chair for Deerfield
Urethane, a Bayer subsidiary, and president of the Bayer
Polymer Division, where he doubled sales to $2 billion,
completed four major acquisitions, and provided oversight
of capital projects totaling more than $1.2 billion.
Lee currently serves as chair of the board of directors of
Fluorous Technologies, Inc., a provider of proprietary
technology for the drug discovery and development
industry, and he is the CEO of Noble Consulting, specializing
in strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and the
financing of start‐up companies,
Active in directing community organizations, Mr. Noble has
served as chair of Life’s Work of Western Pennsylvania and
chair of the board of the Project for Freedom (formerly
known as the Pittsburgh Project for Employment of Persons
with Disabilities). At the University of Pittsburgh he is a
member of the University’s Board of Trustees, where he has
served on the Budget, Investment and Student Affairs
committees. He is also a member of the Board of Visitors of
the School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of
Public and International Affairs. Lee’s support to the
University has included gifts to the H. Lee Noble Scholarship
Fund and the Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg University
Chair.
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