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Donald J. Cram

1919 – 2001 · aged 82

American chemist (1919–2001)

Born
22 Apr 1919 · Chester
Died
17 Jun 2001 · Palm Desert

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 94 years
  1. 22 Apr 1919BornBorn in Chester
  2. 1954AwardGuggenheim Fellowship
  3. 1965AwardACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,
  4. 1974AwardArthur C. Cope Award
  5. 1975AwardCentenary Prize
  6. 1984AwardTolman Award
  7. 1985AwardRoger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry
  8. 1985AwardWillard Gibbs Award
  9. 1987AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  10. 1989AwardGlenn T. Seaborg Medal
  11. 1992AwardNAS Award in Chemical Sciences
  12. 1993AwardNational Medal of Science
  13. 17 Jun 2001DiedDied in Palm Desert

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1919 – 2001).

  1. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  2. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  3. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  4. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  5. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  6. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  7. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1938Munich Agreement
  9. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  10. 1939 – 1945World War II
  11. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  12. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  13. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  14. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  15. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  16. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  17. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  18. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  20. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  21. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  23. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  24. 1956Suez Crisis
  25. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  27. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  29. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  31. 1968Prague Spring
  32. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  33. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  34. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  35. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  37. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  38. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  39. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  40. 1985Schengen Agreement

Biography

Donald James Cram (April 22, 1919 – June 17, 2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." They were the founders of the field of host–guest chemistry.

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