Robert Burns Woodward - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1965
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Robert Burns Woodward

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1965
for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
4/10/1917
place of birth
Boston
date of death
7/8/1979
place of death
Cambridge
Lived
62 years

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member of
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 9/24/1968
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • start time: 1976
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1962
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 4/26/1956
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1953
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
doctoral student
  • Robert Shapiro
  • Christopher S. Foote
  • William R. Roush
  • Kendall Houk
  • Steven A. Benner
  • Daniel S. Kemp
  • Stuart Schreiber
  • Ronald Breslow
  • Aksel Bothner-By
employer
  • Harvard University
educated at
  • Quincy High School
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
occupation
  • chemist
  • university teacher
field of work
  • organic chemistry
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