The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987
Awarded on: 1987-10-14
"for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity"
Affiliations:
- University of California – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Donald J. Cram
Born: 1919-04-22 in Chester, VT, USA
Gender: male
Field: American chemist (1919–2001)
Biography
Donald James Cram was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." They were the founders of the field of host–guest chemistry.