Jerome A. Berson

Jerome A. Berson
Born	May 10, 1924 (1924-05-10) Sanford, Florida
Died	January 13, 2017(2017-01-13) (aged 92)
Alma mater	City College of New York (B.S., Chemistry, 1944) Columbia University (M.A., 1947; Ph.D., Chemistry, 1949)
Spouse	Bella Zevitovsky
Awards	National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University (R.B. Woodward) (1949) California Section Award, American Chemical Society (1963) National Academy of Sciences (1970) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1971) James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry, American Chemical Society(1978) U.S. Senior Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1980) William H. Nichols Medal, New York Section, American Chemical Society (1985) Roger Adams Award, American Chemical Society (1987) Arthur C. Cope Award, American Chemical Society (1992) Oesper Award, Cincinnati Section, American Chemical Society (1998) Literature Award of the German Chemical Industry Fund (2000)
Scientific career
Fields	Organic chemistry
Institutions	University of Southern California University of Wisconsin Yale University
Doctoral students	Theodore Cohen

Jerome A. Berson (May 10, 1924 – January 13, 2017) was an American chemist who was a Sterling Professor at Yale University, and also a published author. He worked on sigmatropic rearrangements, thermal and carbocationic rearrangements, and the role of orbital symmetry in chemical reactions while at University of Wisconsin. While at Yale University, he was part of many new studies, especially on non-Kekulé molecules.