The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1965
Awarded on: 1965-10-21
"for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis"
Affiliations:
- Harvard University – Cambridge, MA, USA
Robert Burns Woodward
Born: 1917-04-10 in Boston, MA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American chemist (1917–1979)
Biography
Robert Burns Woodward was an American organic chemist. He is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century, 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.