Robert Burns Woodward

Robert Burns Woodward
Born(1917-04-10)April 10, 1917
DiedJuly 8, 1979(1979-07-08) (aged 62)
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, PhD)
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsOrganic chemistry
InstitutionsHarvard University
ThesisA Synthetic Attack on the Oestrone Problem (1937)
Doctoral advisorJames Flack Norris
Avery Adrian Morton[2]
Doctoral students

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