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Robert Burns Woodward
Born(1917-04-10)April 10, 1917
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJuly 8, 1979(1979-07-08) (aged 62)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, PhD)
Known for
  • Landmark organic syntheses
  • Molecular structure determination
  • Vitamin B12 total synthesis
  • Woodward cis-hydroxylation
  • Woodward modification
  • Woodward synthesis
  • Woodward's rules
  • Woodward–Doering quinine synthesis
  • Woodward–Hoffmann rules
  • Prévost–Woodward reaction
Awards
  • Centenary Prize (1951)
  • ForMemRS (1956)[1]
  • William H. Nichols Medal (1956)
  • Davy Medal (1959)
  • National Medal of Science (1964)
  • Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1965)
  • Willard Gibbs Award (1967)
  • Copley Medal (1978)
Scientific career
FieldsOrganic chemistry
InstitutionsHarvard University
ThesisA Synthetic Attack on the Oestrone Problem (1937)
Doctoral advisorJames Flack Norris
Avery Adrian Morton[2]
Doctoral students
  • Christopher Foote
  • Ken Houk
  • Ronald Breslow
  • Stuart Schreiber
  • William R. Roush
  • David M. Lemal

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.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference formemrs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Woodward, Robert Burns (1937). A synthetic attack on the oestrone problem (Thesis). MIT. hdl:1721.1/12465.
  3. ^ Elkan Blout (2001). "Robert Burns Woodward". Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. 80. | url = http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/woodward-robert-b.pdf

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