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Also Known As R. B. Woodward
Born April 10, 1917 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died July 8, 1979 (aged 62) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1978) • Nobel Prize (1965)
Subjects Of Study chemical synthesis • cholesterol • cortisone • orbital • organic compound • penicillin • quinine • reaction mechanism • spectroscopy • steroid • vitamin B12

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Aaron Klug
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W.E. Moerner
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Wilhelm Ostwald
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