Robert Burns Woodward
1917-1979
American biochemist who was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesizing many organic and biologically important chemicals. Woodward was the first person ...
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Robert Burns Woodward
1917-1979
American Chemist
Robert Woodward was a Nobel Prize-winning chemist who developed numerous techniques for producing complex chemical compounds in the laboratory. Many of...
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Robert B. Woodward was arguably the greatest organic synthesis chemist of the twentieth century. He accomplished the total synthesis of several important natural products and pharmaceuticals. Total sy...
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Robert B. Woodward was arguably the greatest organic synthesis chemist of the twentieth century. He accomplished the total synthesis of several important natural products and pharmaceuticals. Total sy...
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Woodward was interested in chemistry from an early age and often conducted experiments at his home in Boston. At age 16 he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received hi...
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