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Robert Burns Woodward

Robert Burns Woodward
Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)

Robert Burns Woodward was an American organic chemist. He is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century, having 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. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1965.

10 April 1917

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