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Article: Robert Ramage (chemist). Robert 'Bob' Ramage FRS (4 October 1935 — 16 October 2019) was an organic chemist, born in Glasgow, who specialised in the synthesis and biosynthesis of natural products, peptides, and proteins. Following his undergraduate degree in chemistry and the University of Glasgow, he stayed on... | Wikipedia - Robert Ramage (chemist) - Summary | 235 | 1,153 | null |
van der Waals Prize 2021 (awarded in 2022 by the 2nd International Conference on Noncovalent Interactions, ICNI-2022) RSC-SCI Award Lectureship in the Chemical Sciences (awarded in 2010 by Royal Society of Chemistry/Società Chimica Italiana) Intermolecular Interactions and Structural Aspects in Organic Chemistry Award ... | Wikipedia - Giuseppe Resnati - Honors and awards | 350 | 1,459 | null |
Fluorine Chemistry (ESFC) from ESFC-11 (Bled, Slovenia; 1995) onwards Chair of the: -21st International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (23-28 August 2015, Como, Italy); -1st International Symposium on Halogen Bonding (ISXB-1)(18-22 June 2014, Porto Cesareo, Lecce, Italy) Member of the National Organizing Committee of ... | Wikipedia - Giuseppe Resnati - Honors and awards | 347 | 1,484 | null |
Article: George Rosenkranz. George Rosenkranz (born György Rosenkranz; 20 August 1916 – 23 June 2019) was a pioneering Hungarian-born Mexican scientist in the field of steroid chemistry, who used native Mexican plant sources as raw materials. He was born in Hungary, studied in Switzerland and emigrated to the Americas ... | Wikipedia - George Rosenkranz - Summary | 324 | 1,543 | null |
Section: Scientific research. Rosenkranz was born in 1916 in Budapest, Hungary, the son of Etel (Weiner) and Bertalan Rosenkranz. Rosenkranz studied chemical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where he received his doctorate. His mentor, future Nobel Prize winner Lavoslav Ružička, began Rosenkran... | Wikipedia - George Rosenkranz - Scientific research | 314 | 1,408 | null |
Federico Lehmann at Syntex in Mexico City, Mexico. They had formed the company in 1944 to work with Russell Marker, a Penn State professor, and sought to synthesize the hormone progesterone from diosgenin-containing Mexican yams, which would eventually give rise to the Mexican barbasco trade.: 183 After a disagreement ... | Wikipedia - George Rosenkranz - Scientific research | 327 | 1,569 | null |
Miramontes and Alejandro Zaffaroni was critical to Syntex's first big success. Miramontes, George Rosenkranz and Djerassi synthesis of norethindrone, later proven to be an effective pregnancy inhibitor, led to an infusion of capital in Syntex and Mexican steroid pharma industry. The Mayo clinic had reported that the st... | Wikipedia - George Rosenkranz - Scientific research | 348 | 1,499 | null |
Five months later, under the direction of Rosenkranz and Djerassi, the last step of the synthesis of norethisterone (norethindrone) was successfully completed by Miramontes, and Syntex applied for a patent, which was granted as US patent 2,744,122 on May 1, 1956. Syntex initially reached an agreement with the American ... | Wikipedia - George Rosenkranz - Scientific research | 324 | 1,282 | null |
Rosenkranz understood the importance of peer recognition, not just commercial success, to the scientists who worked for him. He has said, "To have people work productively, you have to build an intellectually challenging environment, allow creative freedom, and insure peer recognition and respect for the individual." A... | Wikipedia - George Rosenkranz - Scientific research | 181 | 874 | null |
Section: Bridge. Rosenkranz was a world-class bridge player and one of the most successful in Mexico. He won 12 NABC-level events at thrice-annual North American Bridge Championships meets, including all four major teams-of-four titles: the Grand Nationals, Reisinger, Spingold and Vanderbilt. In world championship team... | Wikipedia - George Rosenkranz - Bridge | 155 | 737 | null |
Section: Bridge > Tournament wins and runners-up. Wins North American Bridge Championships (12) Master Mixed Teams (1) 1990 Open Swiss Teams (1) 1991 North American Swiss Teams (1) 1990 Grand National Open Teams (1) 1981 Men's Board-a-Match Teams (2) 1984, 1987 Reisinger Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1985 Spingold Knockout T... | Wikipedia - George Rosenkranz - Bridge > Tournament wins and runners-up | 216 | 851 | null |
Section: Publications. Bridge books by Rosenkranz The Romex System of Bidding: a dynamic approach to bridge (New York: World Publishing Co., 1970) Win with Romex: the key to accurate bidding (Crown Publishers, 1975) Bid Your Way to the Top (New York state: Barclay Bridge Supplies, 1978) Bridge, the Bidder's Game (Louis... | Wikipedia - George Rosenkranz - Publications | 348 | 1,406 | null |
Section: Early life. Ružička was born in Vukovar (until 1918 in the Austria-Hungary, today in Croatia). His family of craftsmen and farmers was mostly of Croat origin, with a Czech great-grandparent, Ružička, and a great-grandmother and a great-grandfather from Austria. He lost his father, Stjepan, at the age of four, ... | Wikipedia - Leopold Ružička - Early life | 298 | 1,346 | null |
Section: Career in research. Ružička's first works originated in the field of chemistry of natural compounds. He remained in this field of research all his life. He investigated the ingredients of the Dalmatian insect powder Pyrethrum (from the herb Tanacetum cinerariifolium), a highly esteemed insecticide found in pyr... | Wikipedia - Leopold Ružička - Career in research | 305 | 1,275 | null |
With expertise in the terpene field, he became senior lecturer in 1918, and in 1923, honorary professor at the ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule) as well as the University of Zurich. Here, with a group of his doctoral students, he proved the structure of the compounds muscone and civetone, macrocyclic ketone sc... | Wikipedia - Leopold Ružička - Career in research | 348 | 1,532 | null |
A synergistic upheaval in both the administration and chemistry departments coincided to make his good fortune. Ružička was the first to synthesize musk at an industrial scale. Firmenech named this product Exaltone. Other Swiss manufacturers and DuPont were in competition with them. In 1934, Ružička synthesized the mal... | Wikipedia - Leopold Ružička - Career in research | 305 | 1,501 | null |
The topic of the lecture was From the Dalmatian Insect Powder to Sex Hormones. In 1940 he became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1942 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society, and in 1944 he became an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Dur... | Wikipedia - Leopold Ružička - Career in research | 294 | 1,372 | null |
Section: Later life, legacy, honours and awards. Ružička was the recipient of eight honorary doctorates and the 1938 Marcel Benoist Prize. He was listed as an author on 583 scientific papers. In 1965, he became an honorary member of the Polish Chemical Society, and he was an honorary member of the American Academy of A... | Wikipedia - Leopold Ružička - Later life, legacy, honours and awards | 295 | 1,379 | null |
Section: Biography. Schlögl was born October 5, 1924, in Vienna. Schlögl's first contact with organic chemistry happened during his middle-school education, when his father - the principal and teacher for natural sciences - took young Karl to school after hours to do experiments together. Schlögl graduated from high-sc... | Wikipedia - Karl Schlögl - Biography | 315 | 1,515 | null |
Section: Early years. Schmidt was born in Berlin in 1919 and went to high school in Munich, where his father was a professor of chemistry. Being the son of a Jewish mother, Gerhard was forced to leave Germany at the age of 16, after the Nazis came to power; he spent a year in Switzerland, then moved to England, where h... | Wikipedia - Gerhard Schmidt (crystallographer) - Early years | 288 | 1,389 | null |
Section: Appointments and honors. Schmidt arrived in Israel and joined the soon-to-be-dedicated Weizmann Institute in late 1948. He had been invited by Ernst Bergmann, then the Institute's scientific director, to set up a research group in chemical crystallography. He later gradually broadened his activities to include... | Wikipedia - Gerhard Schmidt (crystallographer) - Appointments and honors | 348 | 1,803 | null |
In 1967, he became a member of the executive committee of the new Center for Industrial Research in Haifa. In addition, from 1967 to 1969, he chaired two committees established by Israel's National Council for Research and Development – on technical applications of photochemistry and on bromine chemistry. He founded th... | Wikipedia - Gerhard Schmidt (crystallographer) - Appointments and honors | 174 | 901 | null |
Section: Scientific research. Professor Schmidt is recognized as one of the founders of modern organic solid-state chemistry. At the Weizmann Institute, the work of his group centered around the development of X-ray crystallographic methods for the determination of molecular structures in order to understand the proper... | Wikipedia - Gerhard Schmidt (crystallographer) - Scientific research | 281 | 1,581 | null |
Section: Biography > Primary accomplishment. At Eli Lilly in the 1960s, Schmiegel and Bryan Molloy, with the help of David Wong, searched for a compound to combat depression. Because depression and similar psychiatric disorders are associated with reduced serotonin levels, they focused their approach on prohibiting ser... | Wikipedia - Klaus Schmiegel - Biography > Primary accomplishment | 274 | 1,187 | null |
Section: Biography > Prozac, the "Drug Of Despair". Eli Lilly recognized the potential of its new drug, but the company first tested it as a high blood pressure medication, an anti-obesity drug, and a remedy for severe depression. After those testing failures, Eli Lilly succeeded in treating five mildly depressed peopl... | Wikipedia - Klaus Schmiegel - Biography > Prozac, the "Drug Of Despair" | 337 | 1,536 | null |
Section: Education and career. Schymanski graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and a Bachelor of Enginnering in Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia in 2003. While at the University of Western Australia, Schymanski combined chemistry and environmental engineering to study cont... | Wikipedia - Emma Schymanski - Education and career | 278 | 1,483 | null |
Section: Research. Schymanski's first research publications were from her undergraduate work when she worked on developing new metal-containing polymers which resulted in three lead author publications. As a graduate student, Schymanski started using information on the fragmentation pattern of organic compounds as a me... | Wikipedia - Emma Schymanski - Research | 298 | 1,631 | null |
Schymanski has developed a subset of PubChem for exposomics, PubChemLite, which can be annotated to increase ability of researchers to identify unknown environmental compounds. Within this field, Schymanski is working to automate the identification of a group of fluorinated compounds called ‘per- and poly-fluoroalkyl s... | Wikipedia - Emma Schymanski - Research | 296 | 1,471 | null |
Section: Notable publications. Schymanski, Emma L.; Jeon, Junho; Gulde, Rebekka; Fenner, Kathrin; Ruff, Matthias; Singer, Heinz P.; Hollender, Juliane (18 February 2014). "Identifying Small Molecules via High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Communicating Confidence". Environmental Science & Technology. 48 (4): 2097–2098.... | Wikipedia - Emma Schymanski - Notable publications | 311 | 901 | null |
Section: Biography. Born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto in 1928, Shimomura was brought up in Manchukuo (Manchuria, China) and Osaka, Japan while his father served as an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army. Later, his family moved to Isahaya, Nagasaki, 25 km from the epicenter of the August 1945 atomic bombing of the city. He ... | Wikipedia - Osamu Shimomura - Biography | 350 | 1,691 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Books Bioluminescence: Chemical Principles And Methods (Revised ed.). World Scientific Publishing Company. 2012. ISBN 978-981-4366-08-3. クラゲに学ぶ : ノーベル賞への道 [Learning from Jellyfish: The Path to the Nobel Prize] (in Japanese). Nagasaki Literature. 2010. ISBN 978-4-88851-157-5. Papers Yasan... | Wikipedia - Osamu Shimomura - Selected publications | 345 | 902 | null |
ISSN 0369-5387. アニリン誘導体およびフェエノール誘導体のロ紙電気泳動について [Study on Oral Electrophoresis of Aniline Derivatives and Phenol Derivatives]. Chemistry Journal of Japan. 76 (3): 277–281. 1955. doi:10.1246/nikkashi1948.76.277. Hirata, Yoshimasa; Eguchi, Shoji; Shimomura, Osamu (October 17, 1959). 海ホタルルシフェリンの構造 [Structure of Sea Firefly... | Wikipedia - Osamu Shimomura - Selected publications | 286 | 682 | null |
1960. doi:10.1246/nikkashi1948.81.179. 海ホタルルシフェリンの構造(第2～3報) (第3報)海ホタルルシフェリンおよびヒドロルシフェリンの推定構造 [Structure of Sea Firefly Luciferin (Parts 2–3) (Part 3) Predicted Structures of Sea Firefly Luciferin and Hydroluciferin]. Chemistry Journal of Japan. 81 (1): 182–185. 1960. doi:10.1246/nikkashi1948.81.182. 緑色蛍光たんぱく質GFPは天の恵みか?... | Wikipedia - Osamu Shimomura - Selected publications | 191 | 428 | null |
Article: Charles Shoppee. Charles William Shoppee FAA FRS (1904–1994) was a British-born organic chemist who performed major research into steroids. He was Professor of Chemistry at the University College of Swansea (1946–1956) and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney (1956–1969). The short citati... | Wikipedia - Charles Shoppee - Summary | 327 | 1,543 | null |
Section: Awards. Dr. Abdus Salam Prize in Chemistry (1986) Nishan-e-Azmat-e-Ilm Plaque, Karachi University (1989) Nishan-e-Azmat-e-Danish Plaque, Karachi University (1993) Nishane- Danish Plaque, Karachi University (1998) First Prize of the National Book Foundation (1997) Star Woman of the Year Award and gold medal by ... | Wikipedia - Bina Shaheen Siddiqui - Awards | 151 | 562 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Siddiqui B.S., Afshan F., Rasheed M., Kardar N., Begum S., Faizi S. (2002) Medicinal Plants - A Source of Potential Chemicals of Diverse Structures and Biological Activity. In: Şener B. (eds) Biodiversity. Springer, Boston, MA. Siddiqui, Bina S.; Khan, Shazia; Nadeem Kardar, M. (2010). "... | Wikipedia - Bina Shaheen Siddiqui - Selected publications | 286 | 846 | null |
Article: Salimuzzaman Siddiqui. Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, (Urdu: سلیم الزّماں صدّیقی [səˈliːmʊzːəmaːn sɪˈd̪ːiːqi]; 19 October 1897 – 14 April 1994) was a Pakistani organic chemist specialising in natural products, and a professor of chemistry at the University of Karachi. Siddiqui studied philosophy at Aligarh Muslim Univ... | Wikipedia - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui - Summary | 326 | 1,495 | null |
Section: Early life. Salimuzzaman was born in Subeha (Barabanki District) near Lucknow on 19 October 1897. His father's name was Chaudhry Muhammad Zaman and his elder brother Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman was a distinguished All India Muslim League leader and one of the founding fathers of Pakistan. He received his early educ... | Wikipedia - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui - Early life | 335 | 1,543 | null |
Section: Pioneering research. Siddiqui's first breakthrough in research came when he successfully isolated an antiarrhythmic agent in 1931 from the roots of Rauvolfia serpentina. He named the newly discovered chemical compound as Ajmaline, after his mentor Hakim Ajmal Khan who was one of the illustrious practitioners o... | Wikipedia - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui - Pioneering research | 170 | 702 | null |
Section: Pioneering research > Discoveries from Neem. Siddiqui was the first scientist to bring the anthelmintic, antifungal, antibacterial, and antiviral constituents of the Neem tree to the attention of natural products chemists. In 1942, he extracted three bitter compounds from neem oil, which he named as nimbin, ni... | Wikipedia - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui - Pioneering research > Discoveries from Neem | 346 | 1,553 | null |
Section: Research leadership. Siddiqui migrated to Pakistan in 1951, four years after the emergence of Pakistan in 1947, after being offered and appointed as "science advisor" to the government by Prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan. He was appointed as Director of the Pakistan Department of Research that was reformulated ... | Wikipedia - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui - Research leadership | 350 | 1,755 | null |
In 1967, Siddiqui was invited by University of Karachi to set up a Postgraduate Institute of Chemistry in affiliation with the Department of Chemistry. He was designated as the institute's Founder Director, whereas the additional research staff was provided by PCSIR. In 1976, the institute was offered a generous donati... | Wikipedia - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui - Research leadership | 218 | 1,175 | null |
Section: Death and legacy. Siddiqui died on 14 April 1994 due to cardiac arrest after a brief illness in Karachi. He was buried in the Karachi University Graveyard. Despite his death, the academic and research institutes that he founded during more than 65 years of his research career are still contributing to the inte... | Wikipedia - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui - Death and legacy | 339 | 1,630 | null |
Section: Awards and honours. Siddiqui was a founder-member of the Indian and Pakistan Academies of Sciences, and later a founder member of the international body the Third World Academy of Sciences. The following are the honours he received, in reverse chronological order: Gold medal of the Soviet Academy of Sciences T... | Wikipedia - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui - Awards and honours | 183 | 855 | null |
Section: Academic career. In 1967 Snieckus joined the faculty of the University of Waterloo as an assistant professor, becoming an associate professor in 1971 and a full professor in 1979. He assumed the Monsanto/NRC research chair in 1992. Snieckus relocated to Queen's University in 1998, where he assumed the Bader Ch... | Wikipedia - Victor Snieckus - Academic career | 233 | 1,119 | null |
Section: Scientific activities. From 1965 — Associate Research Fellow of the Kiev Institute of Hygiene and Occupational Diseases, where he received a PhD degree in medical sciences. Since 1971, research activities related to Romain Efimovicha connected with VNIIGINTOKS (now the Institute of ecological hygiene and toxic... | Wikipedia - Romen Sova - Scientific activities | 334 | 1,675 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Sternhell was born in Lwow, then in Poland but now in western Ukraine. His father was Samson Sternhell, a lawyer. Before the war he attended a Zionist Hebrew language primary school for five years. Having survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, he emigrated to Australia with hi... | Wikipedia - Sever Sternhell - Early life and education | 218 | 1,037 | null |
Article: Gilbert Stork. Gilbert Stork (December 31, 1921 – October 21, 2017) was a Belgian-American organic chemist. For a quarter of a century he was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Columbia University. He is known for making significant contributions to the total synthesis of natural products, i... | Wikipedia - Gilbert Stork - Summary | 180 | 904 | null |
Section: Early life. Gilbert Stork was born in the Ixelles municipality of Brussels, Belgium on December 31, 1921. The oldest of 3 children, his middle brother Michel died in infancy, but he remained close with his younger sister Monique his whole life. His family had Jewish origins, although Gilbert himself didn't rec... | Wikipedia - Gilbert Stork - Early life | 189 | 947 | null |
Section: Incidents > The explosive steak. During his time at the University of Wisconsin, Stork kept a steak on his windowsill in the winter in order to keep it refrigerated. The steak began to degrade and to dispose of it Stork put it in a hot acid bath used to clean glassware which contained nitric and sulphuric acid... | Wikipedia - Gilbert Stork - Incidents > The explosive steak | 150 | 626 | null |
Article: Leiv Kristen Sydnes. Leiv Kristen Sydnes (born 9 July 1948) is a Norwegian chemist, specializing in organic chemistry. He was born in Haugesund, and took his education at the University of Oslo. He has the dr.philos. degree from 1978. He was hired as an associate professor at the University of Tromsø in 1978, ... | Wikipedia - Leiv Kristen Sydnes - Summary | 207 | 949 | null |
Section: Biography. Giuliana Tesoro (previously Cavaglieri) was an Italian-born American chemist whose pioneering work in textile chemistry led to significant advancement in fabric safety and performance. Born on June 1, 1921 in Venice, Italy, to Gino and Margherita Maroni Cavaglierei during the rise of fascism and ant... | Wikipedia - Giuliana Tesoro - Biography | 333 | 1,662 | null |
Section: Contributions to chemistry and textiles. Beyond flame-resistant fabrics, Tesoro contributed to several advancements in textile chemistry, including improvements in fabric durability, wrinkle resistance, and the development of synthetic fibers with enhanced properties. These innovations improved both consumer p... | Wikipedia - Giuliana Tesoro - Contributions to chemistry and textiles | 208 | 1,160 | null |
Section: List of committees and awards. Tesoro's expertise was recognized through her active participation in several esteemed organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council, where she contributed to committees focused on toxic materials and fire safety. She was also a found... | Wikipedia - Giuliana Tesoro - List of committees and awards | 173 | 966 | null |
Section: Biography. Gustavs Vanags was born in "Rungas" house of the Schnicken (Sniķeru) manor (now in Ukri Parish, Auce Municipality). He received primary education in the Mitau Classic Gymnasium, and in 1910 enrolled Riga Polytechnic Institute. During the First World War, he, among many, went in evacuation to the inn... | Wikipedia - Gustavs Vanags - Biography | 298 | 1,343 | null |
Article: Edwin Vedejs. Edwin Vedejs () (Latvian: Edvīns Vedējs; January 31, 1941 – December 2, 2017) was a Latvian-American professor of chemistry. In 1967, he joined the organic chemistry faculty at University of Wisconsin. He rose through the ranks during his 32 years at Wisconsin being named Helfaer Professor (1991–... | Wikipedia - Edwin Vedejs - Summary | 171 | 768 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Edwin "Ed" Vedejs was born in Riga, Latvia to Velta (nee Robežnieks) and Nikolajs Vedējs. Not long after his birth, the German occupation of Latvia during World War II occurred followed by the Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944. These events forced his family to settle in the Fisc... | Wikipedia - Edwin Vedejs - Early life and education | 219 | 1,004 | null |
Section: Research. Vedejs' main areas of research focus included organic synthesis methodologies and reaction mechanisms. His group targeted the synthesis of several natural products, such as retronecine, mitomycin, and cytochalasin, but the completion of a total synthesis was always secondary to the main goal of explo... | Wikipedia - Edwin Vedejs - Research | 334 | 1,592 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Vedejs E, Peterson, MJ (1994). "Stereochemistry and Mechanism in the Wittig Reaction". Topics in Stereochemistry. Vol. 21. pp. 1–157. doi:10.1002/9780470147306.ch1. ISBN 9780470147306. Vedejs E, Diver ST (1 April 1993). "Tributylphosphine: a remarkable acylation catalyst". Journal of the... | Wikipedia - Edwin Vedejs - Selected publications | 318 | 860 | null |
Section: Life. At 15 years old, Walter was one of the youngest students of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where he studied history and chemistry in 1825–28. Subsequently, he studied at Berlin University, receiving a Ph.D. with his dissertation On Combination of Oxalic Acid and Alkali. Simultaneously he served a... | Wikipedia - Filip Neriusz Walter - Life | 317 | 1,402 | null |
Section: Biography. Zega was born on 29 May 1860 in Novo Selo to landowners Jelena and Kosta Zega. He finished primary school in his hometown and attended high school in Pančevo. He attended universities in Vienna and Zürich, graduating from the latter in 1879. He was awarded a canton of Zürich scholarship, which enabl... | Wikipedia - Aleksandar Zega - Biography | 325 | 1,498 | null |
In the meantime, he returned to Switzerland, where he got a job as an assistant in a chemical agricultural station, turning down an invitation to work at the high school in Pirot. In early 1888, he again sought a job as a high school teacher, without success, which is why he continued to work in Switzerland until 1891.... | Wikipedia - Aleksandar Zega - Biography | 345 | 1,679 | null |
He tried to regularly perform bacteriological and hygienic analyses of water samples from Makiš, but also well water. After his release, he worked in the Municipal Chemical Laboratory until 1922, and then transferred to the Customs Laboratory, where he worked until 1925. In November 1926, he retired but was also transf... | Wikipedia - Aleksandar Zega - Biography | 262 | 1,239 | null |
Section: Works > Papers in the field of analytical chemistry. During his research, Zega strived to find methods to test foodstuffs that could be performed with simpler equipment while obtaining results that would meet strict European standards. He found a much simpler method for determining the fatty acids of tallow, b... | Wikipedia - Aleksandar Zega - Works > Papers in the field of analytical chemistry | 199 | 981 | null |
Section: Works > Mineral water analyses. He analysed mineral water alone or in collaboration with Marko B. Nikolić. Twenty-two analyses were published in 1902. Some of the analyses include mineral waters in Mladenovac (1900), which he analyzed himself. Together with Marko B. Nikolić, he analyzed the waters in places su... | Wikipedia - Aleksandar Zega - Works > Mineral water analyses | 159 | 536 | null |
Section: Early life. William Christopher Zeise was born 15 October 1789 in Slagelse, the son of apothecary Frederick Zeise (1754–1836), who was an old friend of physicist Hans Christian Ørsted's father. Zeise attended Slagelse Latin school with the poet Bernhard Severin Ingemann. He moved to Copenhagen in 1805 to take ... | Wikipedia - William Christopher Zeise - Early life | 344 | 1,592 | null |
Section: Formal academic education. In autumn 1806, he was welcomed into the family home of Ørsted, where he was given a position as an assistant, helping Ørsted prepare his university lectures. His stay with Ørsted lasted several years. Ørsted later recounted how he had influenced Zeise through conversations and encou... | Wikipedia - William Christopher Zeise - Formal academic education | 341 | 1,663 | null |
Section: Independent academic career. Zeise returned to Denmark in the autumn of 1819. The prospects were not bright for an appointment at the University, although he was likely the only scientifically trained chemist in the country at that time. However, he learned at the end of the year that he had received public fu... | Wikipedia - William Christopher Zeise - Independent academic career | 341 | 1,734 | null |
Section: Scientific discoveries. Zeise made several scientific discoveries. His discovery of mercaptans (thiols) in 1832 and thioethers in 1833, was once a weighty support for the influential (now obsolete) "Radical Theory" which Berzelius and Liebig developed, provoking important chemical studies. His discovery and wo... | Wikipedia - William Christopher Zeise - Scientific discoveries | 314 | 1,408 | null |
The structure of Zeise's salt was definitively resolved only with the advent of X-ray crystallography and the nature of its platinum to ethylene bond was not understood until the development of the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model in the 1950s. Shortly before he died, Zeise published his attempts to purify the pigment carot... | Wikipedia - William Christopher Zeise - Scientific discoveries | 165 | 747 | null |
Section: Publications. Zeise’s publications include; Udførlig Fremstilling af Chemiens Hovedlærdomme saavel i theoretisk som practisk Henseende (1821) De chlorido platinae et alcohole vini sese invicem permutantibus nec non de novis substantiis inde oriundis. (1830) Ueber das Verhalten des Chlorplatins zum Alkohol und ... | Wikipedia - William Christopher Zeise - Publications | 170 | 497 | null |
Article: Leonidas Zervas. Leonidas Zervas (Greek: Λεωνίδας Ζέρβας, pronounced [leoˈniðas ˈzervas]; 21 May 1902 – 10 July 1980) was a Greek organic chemist who made seminal contributions in peptide chemical synthesis. Together with his mentor Max Bergmann they laid the foundations for the field in 1932 with their major ... | Wikipedia - Leonidas Zervas - Summary | 197 | 860 | null |
Section: Biography > Early life and career abroad. Zervas was born in 1902 in the rural town of Megalopolis in Arcadia, southern Greece. He was the first of 7 children of lawyer and parliamentarian Theodoros Zervas with Vasiliki Zerva (née Gyftaki). After finishing secondary education at the local Gymnasion of Kalamata... | Wikipedia - Leonidas Zervas - Biography > Early life and career abroad | 336 | 1,578 | null |
Section: Biography > Return to Greece. After his Berlin, Dresden and New York years, Zervas decided to return to Greece in 1937. He was immediately appointed full Professor of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in recognition of his distinguished international work. He stayed... | Wikipedia - Leonidas Zervas - Biography > Return to Greece | 291 | 1,572 | null |
At his own insistence, he never got paid for these posts and kept receiving only his professorial salary. Some notable positions he held in chronological order until 1968 include: Member of the State Committee on Vocational Education (1948–1951) Member of numerous committees for the foundation of new industries in post... | Wikipedia - Leonidas Zervas - Biography > Return to Greece | 201 | 1,026 | null |
Section: Biography > Later years. With the restoration of democracy in 1974, Zervas was able to contribute once more to research and educational policy. As previously, refusing to take a salary for these positions, he served a second time as the President of the Greek Atomic Energy Commission (1974–1975) and then as th... | Wikipedia - Leonidas Zervas - Biography > Later years | 183 | 930 | null |
Section: Contribution to Chemistry. The enduring contributions of Zervas were made together with Bergmann and involved the first successful synthesis of substantial length oligopeptides. They achieved this using the carboxybenzyl amine protecting group for the masking of the N-terminus of the growing oligopeptide chain... | Wikipedia - Leonidas Zervas - Contribution to Chemistry | 342 | 1,623 | null |
the Boc group). Zervas continued his research on peptide synthesis in New York and later in Greece. The first topic of his research once in Greece was the synthesis of N- or O-phosphorylated amino acids, in which he demonstrated the utility of dibenzyl chlorophosphonate. He continued his efforts on the development of n... | Wikipedia - Leonidas Zervas - Contribution to Chemistry | 337 | 1,485 | null |
Section: Honours and legacy. The scientific work of Leonidas Zervas had a global resonance and his contribution was recognised by multiple awards throughout his life. In 1960 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel on the occasion of the university's 500th anniversary, upon recommendation of Hans... | Wikipedia - Leonidas Zervas - Honours and legacy | 309 | 1,544 | null |
Section: Early life. Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts to railroad official Austin W. Adams and Lydia Curtis, and grew up in a prosperous neighborhood in South Boston, the last child in a gifted family that included Adams's three older sisters (two went to Radcliffe College and one to Smith College). Adams was pa... | Wikipedia - Roger Adams - Early life | 335 | 1,602 | null |
Section: Academic career. In 1916, Adams accepted an offer of an assistant professorship from William A. Noyes, head of the chemistry department at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He began a career at UIUC that would span 56 years. Adams succeeded Noyes as department head in 1926, and remained in that posit... | Wikipedia - Roger Adams - Academic career | 335 | 1,537 | null |
Determination of the structure of gossypol for the cottonseed industry. Isolated and identified cannabidiol from Cannabis sativa, showed its relationship to cannabinol and tetrahydrocannabinol. Synthesized cannabinol and tetrahydrocannabinol analogs. Studies of Senecio and Crotalaria alkaloids that opened two fields of... | Wikipedia - Roger Adams - Academic career | 333 | 1,465 | null |
Army into poison gases at American University in Washington, D.C.; There he and Conant headed research groups and E.P. Kohler, an old faculty friend of Adams from Harvard, was in charge of the Offense Section. Adams's return to UIUC began a period (1918–1926) of intense research, with 45 Ph.D. students that resulted in... | Wikipedia - Roger Adams - Academic career | 335 | 1,674 | null |
Adams was also suspect in the eyes of the FBI because he was doing studies into the chemical mechanisms by which the plant Cannabis sativa (marijuana) affects the brain; these studies also directly led to first synthesizing of the cannabinoid known as Hexahydrocannabinol. The plant had been effectively banned by the pa... | Wikipedia - Roger Adams - Academic career | 312 | 1,576 | null |
Adams was politically active, but not affiliated with any group called the Lincoln's Birthday Committee for the Advancement of Science. He was a member of the Lincoln's Birthday Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom (LBCDIF), which was founded by the prominent anthropologist Franz Boas to discredit Nazi raci... | Wikipedia - Roger Adams - Academic career | 171 | 907 | null |
Section: Awards and honors. Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1926) William H. Nichols Medal (1927) Elected Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1929) Elected Member of the American Philosophical Society (1935) Willard Gibbs Award (1936) Elliott Cresson Medal (1944) Ira R... | Wikipedia - Roger Adams - Awards and honors | 188 | 897 | null |
Section: Early life and work. Adkins was born on January 16, 1892, in Newport, Ohio, the son of Emily (née Middleswart) and Alvin Adkins. He grew up on a farm with his brother and sister. After attending and finishing high school in Newport, he entered Denison University. Having a reputation as a tall and shy boy, Adki... | Wikipedia - Homer Burton Adkins - Early life and work | 308 | 1,481 | null |
Adkins was a lecturer to graduate students in a course entitled "Survey of Organic Chemistry," but he also kept contact with students in elementary and continued for most of the time to give lectures in the first course in organic chemistry. In 1919, Adkins began his thesis on the rates of oxidation by potassium perman... | Wikipedia - Homer Burton Adkins - Early life and work | 331 | 1,668 | null |
Section: World War II. Throughout World War II, Adkins focused his research on wartime necessities. Many feared that poisonous gases would be used extensively in World War II as they had been during World War I. Adkins' laboratory at Wisconsin engaged in chemical warfare research. Classified documents at the time revea... | Wikipedia - Homer Burton Adkins - World War II | 230 | 1,184 | null |
Section: Later life and death. While he was a graduate student at the Ohio State University, Adkins married Louise Spivey, who was a classmate of his at Denison and who was teaching high school mathematics. The pair had three children: Susanne, Nance, and Roger. He had three grandchildren from Susanne. Adkins enjoyed l... | Wikipedia - Homer Burton Adkins - Later life and death | 219 | 1,028 | null |
Section: Early life. Anthony "Bo" Arduengo was born in 1952 in Tampa, Florida. He grew up in the Atlanta, Georgia area. His father was a pressman and mechanic with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and instilled his son with an interest and skill for all things mechanical and scientific. By the age of 16, he and his fat... | Wikipedia - Anthony J. Arduengo - Early life | 161 | 770 | null |
Section: Education. Arduengo attended Bouldercrest and Meadowview Elementary Schools, and Walker High School. In 1969 he left high school with enrollment in Georgia Tech's Joint Enrollment Program for High School Students (JEPHS). He obtained his BSc (1974, cum laude) and his PhD (1976) at Georgia Tech, advised by Edwa... | Wikipedia - Anthony J. Arduengo - Education | 205 | 963 | null |
Section: Career. Arduengo was a research scientist at DuPont from 1976 to 1977, and from 1984 to 1998, and assistant professor at the University of Illinois from 1977 to 1984. He retired from teaching in 2018 and is now Professor of the Practice in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Te... | Wikipedia - Anthony J. Arduengo - Career | 271 | 1,313 | null |
Section: Research > University of Illinois 1978–1984. At Illinois Arduengo examined more broadly the areas of organo-main group element chemistry, and molecules containing unusual valency. His first publications involving the chemistry of electron-deficient carbenes occurred during this period. This work with electron ... | Wikipedia - Anthony J. Arduengo - Research > University of Illinois 1978–1984 | 311 | 1,555 | null |
Section: Research > DuPont 1984–1999. On returning to DuPont in 1984, Arduengo resumed a position in CR&D and continued the research into the recently discovered ADPO molecule and related structures. This line of research proved to be extremely fruitful and resulted in a steady string of publications on new and unusual... | Wikipedia - Anthony J. Arduengo - Research > DuPont 1984–1999 | 338 | 1,641 | null |
Arduengo's effort on the industrial-scale syntheses of the catalysts for the paints on which he worked would launch his re-entry into the area of carbene chemistry, but this time it was to be nucleophilic rather than electrophilic carbenes. The observation that the catalyst syntheses were well tolerant of varied reacti... | Wikipedia - Anthony J. Arduengo - Research > DuPont 1984–1999 | 331 | 1,553 | null |
Carbenes bearing a variety of substituent groups were prepared and characterized. The saturated imidazolin-2-ylidenes that were extensively investigated by Hans-Werner Wanzlick thirty years earlier (without isolation) were now also shown to be stable enough to isolate with appropriate substituents at nitrogen. An air-s... | Wikipedia - Anthony J. Arduengo - Research > DuPont 1984–1999 | 302 | 1,380 | null |
His carbene chemistry conducted from Braunschweig included reactivity studies of imidazol-2-ylidenes with fluorinated inorganic compounds. New structures included carbene•phenyltetrafluorophosphorane, carbene•PF5, carbene•AsF5, carbene•SbF5, and carbene•BF3 adducts. Arduengo's final work on carbenes at DuPont included ... | Wikipedia - Anthony J. Arduengo - Research > DuPont 1984–1999 | 330 | 1,150 | null |
Although the majority of Wanzlick's work on the saturated imidazolin-2-ylidenes would have been expected to yield dimers in the absence of bulky substituents on nitrogen, a single (unsaturated) imidazol-2-ylidene, 1,3,4,5-tetraphenylimidazol-2-ylidene, remained as an example of a carbene that could (should) have been i... | Wikipedia - Anthony J. Arduengo - Research > DuPont 1984–1999 | 216 | 797 | null |
Section: Research > University of Alabama 1999–2020. At the University of Alabama research from Arduengo's laboratory has focused on enhancements to the basic structure of the imidazol-2-ylidenes through substituent effects leading to novel compounds like a cyclopentadienyl fused imidazol-2-ylidene. Research into the u... | Wikipedia - Anthony J. Arduengo - Research > University of Alabama 1999–2020 | 183 | 771 | null |
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