Robert Burns Woodward
See also: Woodward
Robert Burns Woodward , (1917 - 1979), is a American Chimiste , prize winner of the Nobel Prize, famous for its work of chemical Synthèse.
Biography
Woodward was born in Boston and made its studies with the Massachusetts Institute off Technology (MIT). From 1941 to 1963, he taught chemistry with the Université Harvard. In 1963, he became director of the Woodward institute of research, with Basle, in Suisse. With the American chemist William von Eggers Doering, in 1944, it carried out the synthesis of the Quinine. Woodward also realized in 1951 the synthesis of the Cholestérol and of the Cortisone then it directed into 1954 the research tasks which made it possible to carry out the synthesis of the Strychnine. It took the direction of a research team which managed to make the synthesis of a Tranquillizing, the Réserpine, in 1956. It accepted in 1965, for its work of chemical synthesis, the Nobel Prize of chemistry. It is also known for its research on the Antibiotique S.
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