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Ivan Alimarin (1903-1989), Soviet chemist, one of the leaders of analytical chemistry in 20's century; Elmer Lucille Allen (born 1931), American chemist and ceramic artist; Heather C. Allen (born 1960), American chemist; Adah Almutairi (born 1976), American chemist; Sidney Altman (1939–2022), Canadian-American biologist, 1989 Nobel Prize in ...
Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. [1] Julian was the first person to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and ...
Harvey Washington Wiley (October 18, 1844 – June 30, 1930) was an American chemist who advocated successfully for the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and subsequently worked at the Good Housekeeping Institute laboratories.
At least 25 laureates have received the Nobel Prize for contributions in the field of organic chemistry, more than any other field of chemistry. [5] Two Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry, Germans Richard Kuhn (1938) and Adolf Butenandt (1939), were not allowed by their government to accept the prize. They would later receive a medal and ...
In the cities, the foundations of commercial pharmacy were slowly building. By 1721 there were "14 apothecary shops in Boston," [11] and the first "commissioned pharmaceutical officer in an American army" was the Boston apothecary, Andrew Craigie. [18] A sort of warrior-apothecary, he took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. And ...
Tetrakis(trimethylsilyl)silane is one of many organosilicon compounds first reported by Gilman et al. [4] During his lifetime, Gilman completed 1020 papers, 584 of which were published after he became blind in 1947. In 1936, the Journal of Organic Chemistry was created by Gilman with the help of M.S. Kharasch.
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Louis Frederick Fieser (April 7, 1899 – July 25, 1977) was an American organic chemist, professor, and in 1968, professor emeritus at Harvard University.His award-winning research included work on blood-clotting agents including the first synthesis of vitamin K, synthesis and screening of quinones as antimalarial drugs, work with steroids leading to the synthesis of cortisone, and study of ...