Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist (1917–1979) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Robert Burns Woodward ForMemRS HonFRSE (April 10, 1917 – July 8, 1979) was an American organic chemist. He is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century,[3] having made many key contributions to the subject, especially in the synthesis of complex natural products and the determination of their molecular structure. He worked closely with Roald Hoffmann on theoretical studies of chemical reactions. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1965.
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Born | (1917-04-10)April 10, 1917 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | July 8, 1979(1979-07-08) (aged 62) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, PhD) |
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Fields | Organic chemistry |
Institutions | Harvard University |
Thesis | A Synthetic Attack on the Oestrone Problem (1937) |
Doctoral advisor | James Flack Norris Avery Adrian Morton[2] |
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