Posts by Category: Chemists

Robert Burns Woodward

  Education and Experiences   Awards and Honors 1945 John Scott Medal 1955 Baekeland Medal 1959 Davy Medal 1961 Roger Adams Award 1964 National Medal of Science 1965 Nobel Prize in ...

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Koichi Tanaka

Koichi Tanaka

Koichi Tanaka (born 1959, Toyama, Japan) is a Japanese analytical chemist and engineer, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses ...

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Samuel J. Danishefsky

Samuel J. Danishefsky

Samuel J. Danishefsky (born 1936, Bayonne, NJ) is synthetic organic chemist who accomplished in natural products total synthesis and  pioneer for chemical synthesis of carbohydrates for the ...

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Roger Kornberg

Roger Kornberg

Roger D. Kornberg (born 1947), biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his research on the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription. His father, Arthur Kornberg, who won ...

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Barry M. Trost

Barry M. Trost

Barry M. Trost (born in 1941) is an American organic chemist, Tamaki Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the chemistry department at Stanford University. He has made great contributions to the ...

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Akira Suzuki

Akira Suzuki

Akira, Suzuki (Born in 1930), is Japanese organic chemist. Suzuki was one of the recipients of Nobel prize in Chemistry 2010, with Richard Heck and Ei-ichi Negishi for their research during the 1960s ...

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Robert B. Merrifield

Robert B. Merrifield

Robert Bruce Merrifield,  (1921-) is an American biochemist who won the 1984 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his method of producing peptides and proteins. He revolutionized the study of these complex ...

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George Andrew Olah

George Andrew Olah

George Andrew Olah (born in 1927, ) is a Hungarian and Americal chemist. He was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994 for his work involving generation and reactivity of carbocations via ...

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Karl Barry Sharpless

Karl Barry Sharpless

Karl Barry Sharpless (born in 1941) is an American chemist who was awarded half the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into chirally catalysed oxidation reactions. He has discovered and ...

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Jean-Marie Lehn

Jean-Marie Lehn

Jean-Marie Lehn (born 1930, Rosheim, France), professor emeritus at the University of Strasbourg. In 1987 he was awarded with the  Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his molecular recognition studies. ...

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