Robert Burns Woodward: Facts & Related Content

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Also Known As R. B. Woodward
Born April 10, 1917 • BostonMassachusetts
Died July 8, 1979 (aged 62) • CambridgeMassachusetts
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1978)Nobel Prize (1965)
Subjects Of Study chemical synthesischolesterolcortisoneorbitalorganic compoundpenicillinquininereaction mechanismspectroscopysteroidvitamin B12

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Sir Robert Robinson.
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Roald Hoffmann
American chemist
Fukui Kenichi
Japanese chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Moerner, W.E.
W.E. Moerner
American chemist
Charles J. Pedersen
American chemist
Bruce Merrifield
American biochemist and educator
Donald J. Cram
American chemist
Herschbach, Dudley R.
Dudley R. Herschbach
American chemist and educator
Yuan T. Lee
Taiwanese-American chemist
John B. Goodenough
American physicist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
Percy Julian
Percy Julian
American chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Kurt Alder.
Kurt Alder
German chemist
Norman Haworth, c. 1920.
Sir Norman Haworth
British chemist

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