Louis Frederick Fieser | |
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| Born | April 7, 1899 |
| Died | July 25, 1977 (aged 78) |
| Alma mater | Williams College Frankfurt University Harvard University |
| Known for | Synthesis of vitamin K Quinone Cortisone Woodward–Fieser rules Inventor of Napalm |
| Spouse | Mary Peters Fieser |
| Awards | George C. Pimentel (1967) William H. Nichols Medal (1963) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Oxford Harvard University |
| Thesis | Reduction potentials of quinones. / A new absorbent for oxygen in gas analysis (1924) |
| Doctoral advisor | James Bryant Conant |
| Doctoral students | Donald J. Cram William Summer Johnson Alfred Bader |
| Other notable students | Donald J. Cram |
Louis Frederick Fieser (April 7, 1899 – July 25, 1977) was an American organic chemist, professor, and in 1968, professor emeritus at Harvard University. His award-winning research included work on blood-clotting agents including the first synthesis of vitamin K, synthesis and screening of quinones as antimalarial drugs, work with steroids leading to the synthesis of cortisone, and study of the nature of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. He also invented militarily effective napalm while at Harvard in 1942.[1]
- ^ Nature volume 496, page 29 (04 April 2013) - "In 1942, in a secret lab at Harvard University in Massachusetts, chemist Louis Fieser and his team created napalm — an incendiary gel that sticks to skin and can burn down to the bone."