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, who is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century.