Donald J. Cram Ph.D.
Donald J. Cram Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987
The President’s National Medal of Science – Chemistry 1993
Co-Nobelists: Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
Name: Donald James Cram
Birth: 22 April 1919, Chester, VT, USA
Death: 17 June, 2001, Palm Desert, CA, USA
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Award: “for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity”
Subject: organic chemistry
Portion of cash: 1/3
Ecucation: M.S.: M.S. 1942, Mentor Dr. Norman Cromwell, University of Nebraska
Ph.D.: Ph.D. 1947
Mentor: Professor L.F. Fieser, Harvard University. National Research Council Fellowship. Ph.D.in 18 months.
When word “research” entered my vocabulary, it had magic ring, suggesting search for new phenomena. Chemical research became my god, and conducting it, my act of prayer.
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Nat’l Medal – Chemistry
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