Robert B. Woodward Ph.D.
Robert B. Woodward Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1965
National Medal of Science – Physical Sciences 1964
Name: Robert Burns Woodward
Birth: 10 April 1917, Boston, MA, USA
Death: 8 July 1979, Cambridge, MA, USA
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Award: “for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis”
Subject: natural products chemistry, organic chemistry
Portion of Cash: 1/1
Biography
Patents
Nat’s Medal, Physical Sciences
The President’s National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Title: Professor of Chemistry
Affiliation: Harvard University Cambridge,Massachusetts USA
Gender: Male
Year Deceased: 1979
Award Discipline: Physical Sciences
Award Year: 1964
Citation: “For an imaginative new approach to the synthesis of complex organic molecules and, especially, for [his] brilliant syntheses of strychnine, reserphine, lysergic acid, and chlorophyll.”
Presented by President Johnson at a White House Ceremony in the East Room on February 8, 1965.