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Robert Burns Woodward
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Robert Burns Woodward

1917 – 1979 · aged 62

American chemist

Born
10 Apr 1917 · Boston
Died
8 Jul 1979 · Cambridge

Life timeline

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

Showing 71 years
  1. 10 Apr 1917BornBorn in Boston
  2. 1951AwardCentenary Prize
  3. 1956AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  4. 1956AwardWilliam H. Nichols Medal
  5. 1957AwardACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,
  6. 1958AwardRemsen Award
  7. 1959AwardDavy Medal
  8. 1961AwardRoger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry
  9. 1964AwardNational Medal of Science
  10. 1964AwardRobert Robinson Award
  11. 1965AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  12. 1967AwardWillard Gibbs Award
  13. 1968AwardLavoisier Medal
  14. 8 Jul 1979DiedDied in Cambridge

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1917 – 1979).

  1. 1917Balfour Declaration
  2. 1917February Revolution
  3. 1917October Revolution
  4. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  5. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  6. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  7. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  8. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  9. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  10. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  11. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1938Munich Agreement
  13. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  14. 1939 – 1945World War II
  15. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  16. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  17. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  18. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  19. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  20. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  21. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  22. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  24. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  25. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  27. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  28. 1956Suez Crisis
  29. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  31. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  33. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  35. 1968Prague Spring
  36. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  37. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  38. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  39. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  40. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution

Biography

Robert Burns Woodward (April 10, 1917 – July 8, 1979) was an American organic chemist, who is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century.

Through his career, he made many key contributions to the subject, especially in the synthesis of complex natural products and the determination of their molecular structure. He worked closely with Roald Hoffmann on theoretical studies of chemical reactions, and also with Albert Eschenmoser. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1965 “for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis.”

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