The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1990
Awarded on: 1990-10-17
"for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis"
Affiliations:
- Harvard University – Cambridge, MA, USA
Elias James Corey
Born: 1928-07-12 in Methuen, MA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American chemist (born 1928)
Biography
Elias James Corey is an American organic chemist. In 1990, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis", specifically retrosynthetic analysis.