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:
- Du Pont – Wilmington, DE, USA
Charles J. Pedersen
Born: 1904-10-03 in Pusan, Korea (now South Korea)
Gender: male
Field: American organic chemist (1904–1989)
Biography
Charles John Pedersen was an American organic chemist best known for discovering crown ethers and describing methods of synthesizing them during his entire 42-year career as a chemist for DuPont at DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware, and at DuPont's Jackson Laboratory in Deepwater, New Jersey. Often associated with Reed McNeil Izatt, Pedersen also shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 with Donald J. Cram and Jean-Marie Lehn. He is one of three Nobel Prize laureates born in Korea, along with Peace Prize laureate Kim Dae-jung and Literature laureate Han Kang.