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Robert Burns Woodward

Robert B. Woodward

American chemist.

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Sex or Gender

Male

Country of Citizenship

United States

Place of Birth

Boston
Located in the Administrative Territorial Entity
:
Massachusetts

Place of Death

Cambridge

Occupation

Chemist
University Teacher

Member Of

Royal Society
 (4/26/1956 - )
Subject Has Role
:
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Start Time
: 4/26/1956
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Academy of Sciences of the USSR
 (1976 - )
Subject Has Role
:
Foreign Member
Start Time
: 1976
American Philosophical Society
 (1962 - )
Start Time
: 1962
National Academy of Sciences
 (1953 - )
Subject Has Role
:
Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
Start Time
: 1953

Date of Birth

4/10/1917

Date of Death

7/8/1979

Instance Of

Human

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Cause of Death

Myocardial Infarction

Employer

Harvard University

Educated At

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quincy High School

Given Name

Robert
Series Ordinal
:1
Burns
Series Ordinal
:2

Manner of Death

Natural Causes

Described by Source

Obálky Knih
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Subject Named As
:Woodward, Robert Burns, 1917-1979
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Vol. 11
Page(s)
:533

Nominated For

16 items
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1946)
Point in Time
: 1946
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1947)
Point in Time
: 1947
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1948)
Point in Time
: 1948
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1953)
Point in Time
: 1953
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1954)
Point in Time
: 1954
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1955)
Point in Time
: 1955
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1956)
Point in Time
: 1956
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1957)
Point in Time
: 1957
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1958)
Point in Time
: 1958
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1959)
Point in Time
: 1959
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1960)
Point in Time
: 1960
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1961)
Point in Time
: 1961
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1962)
Point in Time
: 1962
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1963)
Point in Time
: 1963
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1964)
Point in Time
: 1964
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1965)
Point in Time
: 1965

Field of Work

Organic Chemistry

Name in Native Language

Robert Burns Woodward

Student

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

English

Family Name

Woodward

Father

Place of Burial

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Spouse

Award Received

17 items
Centenary Prize
 (1951)
Point in Time
: 1951
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
 (4/26/1956)
Point in Time
: 4/26/1956
William H. Nichols Medal
 (1956)
Point in Time
: 1956
ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,
 (1957)
Point in Time
: 1957
Remsen Award
 (1958)
Point in Time
: 1958
Davy Medal
 (1959)
Award Rationale
: In recognition of his distinguished researches in organic chemistry and particularly for his contributions to the structure and synthesis of natural products
Point in Time
: 1959
Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry
 (1961)
Point in Time
: 1961
National Medal of Science
 (1964)
Point in Time
: 1964
Robert Robinson Award
 (1964)
Point in Time
: 1964
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 (1965)
Award Rationale
: för hans förtjänster om den organiska synteskonstens utveckling
Award Rationale
: for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis
Point in Time
: 1965
Prize Money
: 282,000 Swedish krona
Willard Gibbs Award
 (1967)
Point in Time
: 1967
Lavoisier Medal
 (1968)
Point in Time
: 1968
AMA Scientific Achievement Award
 (1971)
Point in Time
: 1971
Arthur C. Cope Award
 (1973)
Point in Time
: 1973
Doctor Honoris Causa From the Pierre and Marie Curie University
 (1975)
Point in Time
: 1975
Copley Medal
 (1978)
Award Rationale
: In recognition of his masterly contributions to the synthesis of complex natural products and his discovery of the importance of orbital symmetry.
Point in Time
: 1978
Honorary Doctorate of Technion

Interested In

Chemistry
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Harry H. Wasserman
Eudoxia Woodward
 (September 1946 - )
Start Time
: September 1946
Arthur Chester Woodward
Steven A. Benner