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Section: Patents. Franz has over 840 patents to his name concerning glyphosate and lesser known discoveries. Because of the nature of glyphosate, it requires many patents concerning identification, synthesis, and other processes required to produce the chemical. His patents include: Patent Number: 3799758, Phytotoxican... | Wikipedia - John E. Franz - Patents | 178 | 729 | null |
Article: Jean Fréchet. Jean M.J. Fréchet (born August 1944) is a French-American chemist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his work on polymers including polymer-supported chemistry, chemically amplified photoresists, dendrimers, macroporous separation media, and pol... | Wikipedia - Jean Fréchet - Summary | 191 | 967 | null |
Section: Education and academic career. Fréchet received his first university degree at the Institut de Chimie et Physique Industrielles (now CPE) in Lyon, France, before coming to the US for studies in organic and polymer chemistry under Conrad Schuerch at the State University of New York College of Environmental Scie... | Wikipedia - Jean Fréchet - Education and academic career | 188 | 964 | null |
Section: Research. Fréchet’s early work focused on polymer-supported chemistry with the first approach to the solid-phase synthesis of oligosaccharides and pioneering work on polymeric reagents and polymer protecting groups. In 1979 Working with C.G. Willson at IBM during a sabbatical leave, he invented chemically ampl... | Wikipedia - Jean Fréchet - Research | 241 | 1,191 | null |
Section: Honors and awards. 2020 National Academy of Engineering Charles Stark Draper Prize in Engineering 2019 King Faisal International Prize in Chemistry 2013 Japan Prize for the "Development of chemically amplified resist polymer materials for innovative semiconductor manufacturing process" 2010 Grand Prix de la Ma... | Wikipedia - Jean Fréchet - Honors and awards | 343 | 1,892 | null |
Cope Award (American Chemical Society award for outstanding achievement in the field of Organic Chemistry) 2006 Macro Group UK Medal (joint Royal Society for Chemistry and Society of Chemical Industry) for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Macromolecular Chemistry 2005 Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Service o... | Wikipedia - Jean Fréchet - Honors and awards | 301 | 1,673 | null |
Section: Early life and education. The eldest of three children, Gillyard was born on February 1, 1941, in Talladega, Alabama to a steel worker and a nurse. When she was young, Gillyard was involved with the local 4-H club, singing in the school chorus, cheerleading, and taking part in science fairs. At one such fair G... | Wikipedia - Cornelia Gillyard - Early life and education | 322 | 1,624 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Henry Gilman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, as the son of a tailor. He was the third of eight children. Gilman graduated from a Boston high school and later attended Harvard University, where he graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1915. During his final ... | Wikipedia - Henry Gilman - Early life and education | 319 | 1,519 | null |
Section: Career. For a short time after receiving his PhD, Henry Gilman worked an associate professor at the University of Illinois after being invited by his former instructor Roger Adams. In 1919, Gilman moved on to become an assistant professor in charge of organic chemistry at Iowa State College of Agriculture and ... | Wikipedia - Henry Gilman - Career | 327 | 1,684 | null |
Section: Later years (1947–1986). In 1947, due to a combination of glaucoma and detachment of a retina Henry Gilman became blind in one eye and lost most of his vision in the other. He was forced to rely on his wife and students to act as his eyes, to read and write for him. His wife was almost always at his side to gu... | Wikipedia - Henry Gilman - Later years (1947–1986) | 215 | 953 | null |
Section: Honors and awards. Elected to National Academy of Sciences, 1945 Iowa Award and Midwest Award of American Chemical Society, 1951 Honorary Fellow of the British Chemical Society, 1961 First American Chemical Society Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Organosilicon Chemistry, 1962 Distinguished Fellowship Awards,... | Wikipedia - Henry Gilman - Honors and awards | 168 | 882 | null |
Section: Early life and education. He was born in Yelisavetgrad, Russian Empire to a Jewish merchant family. His father was Hershko (Hirsh) Gomberg and his mother was Maryam-Ethel Reznikova. In 1884, the family emigrated to Chicago to escape the pogroms following the assassination of Czar Alexander II. In Chicago he wo... | Wikipedia - Moses Gomberg - Early life and education | 154 | 641 | null |
Section: Career. Appointed an instructor in 1893, Gomberg worked at the University of Michigan for the duration of his professional academic career, becoming chair of the department of chemistry from 1927 until his retirement in 1936. Dr. Gomberg served as president of the American Chemical Society in 1931. In 1896–189... | Wikipedia - Moses Gomberg - Career | 235 | 1,110 | null |
Section: Career > Discovery of persistent radicals. Seeking to prepare hexaphenylethane (5), Gomberg attempted a Wurtz coupling of triphenylmethyl chloride (1). Elemental analysis of the resultant white crystalline solid, however, uncovered discrepancies with the predicted molecular formula: Hypothesizing that (1) had ... | Wikipedia - Moses Gomberg - Career > Discovery of persistent radicals | 336 | 1,488 | null |
Section: Scientific career. Goroff was an National Science Foundation (NSF) postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan State University, where she worked in the laboratory of James (Ned) Jackson. At MSU she worked on the synthesis and study of carbenes. Goroff continued her postdoctoral studies at the University of Michigan, ... | Wikipedia - Nancy Goroff - Scientific career | 299 | 1,341 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Sun, Aiwu; Lauher, Joseph W.; Goroff, Nancy S. (2006-05-19). "Preparation of Poly(diiododiacetylene), an Ordered Conjugated Polymer of Carbon and Iodine". Science. 312 (5776): 1030–1034. Bibcode:2006Sci...312.1030S. doi:10.1126/science.1124621. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16709780. S2CID 360451... | Wikipedia - Nancy Goroff - Selected publications | 280 | 736 | null |
Section: Research and career. After graduating, Gouterman was appointed to the faculty at Harvard University where he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with William Moffitt. Shortly after Gouterman arrived, Moffitt died of a heart attack during a squash game. Gouterman was quickly promoted to assistant professor, and... | Wikipedia - Martin Gouterman - Research and career | 341 | 1,649 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Gouterman, Martin (1961-01-01). "Spectra of porphyrins". Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy. 6: 138–163. Bibcode:1961JMoSp...6..138G. doi:10.1016/0022-2852(61)90236-3. ISSN 0022-2852. Gouterman, Martin (1959-05-01). "Study of the Effects of Substitution on the Absorption Spectra of Porphi... | Wikipedia - Martin Gouterman - Selected publications | 264 | 703 | null |
Section: Personal life. Gouterman was a community organiser and activist. He campaigned to end the Vietnam War. In his early career Gouterman was not open about his sexuality. He came out as gay at around age 35 after he moved to Seattle. There he became an activist for gay rights and co-founded the Dorian Society. He ... | Wikipedia - Martin Gouterman - Personal life | 154 | 740 | null |
Section: Early life. Green was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and grew up in a low-income project in Brooklyn where he attended local schools. He attended City College of New York from 1954 to 1958. His grandfather, Mordecai Grunglaz (became Green in the United States), was driven out of Belarus in 1910 for h... | Wikipedia - Mark M. Green - Early life | 181 | 827 | null |
Section: Career. After graduation in 1958 he worked as a technician for Pfizer Corporation in Brooklyn and then entered the United States Army for six months of active duty in Fort McClellan, Alabama, teaching aspects of chemical and biological warfare. After fulfilling his service requirements, he worked first for Per... | Wikipedia - Mark M. Green - Career | 346 | 1,727 | null |
He was assistant professor from 1974 to 1976 at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. From 1976 to 1979, Green was associate professor at Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, New York. He was visiting professor in 1978 at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, and National Chemical Laboratory, Poona, India, ha... | Wikipedia - Mark M. Green - Career | 349 | 1,847 | null |
Section: Career > Awards and honors. In 1978, Green was appointed an Indo-American fellow under the Fulbright Program supporting a six-month stay in India. In 1989, he was awarded a Japan-United States Fellowship by the National Science Foundation to support sabbatical leave in Japan. He was granted an American Cyanami... | Wikipedia - Mark M. Green - Career > Awards and honors | 321 | 1,653 | null |
Section: Personal life. While assistant professor at the University of Michigan, Green became involved in the antiwar movement (Vietnam). This led to him showing his students the NARMIC slides prepared by the Society of Friends (Quakers) at Swarthmore College, showing how the US was using illegal weapons in the war, we... | Wikipedia - Mark M. Green - Personal life | 206 | 887 | null |
Section: Education and employment. In 1894, Hahn graduated from Miss Florence Baldwin's School for Girls, Preparatory for Bryn Mawr College, now known as Baldwin School. [1] She went on to attend Bryn Mawr College, earning a bachelor's degree in both chemistry and biology in 1899. Upon completion, she became a professo... | Wikipedia - Dorothy Hahn - Education and employment | 292 | 1,551 | null |
Section: Major contributions and achievements. In 1913 Hahn published her first paper, entitled Saturated δ-Ketonic Esters and their Derivatives, confirming the ring structure of hydantoins utilizing ultraviolet spectrophotometry techniques developed by her colleague Emma Perry Carr. Her research resulted in over 30 pu... | Wikipedia - Dorothy Hahn - Major contributions and achievements | 273 | 1,390 | null |
Section: Career and research. Hardy worked as assistant professor of organic chemistry at Bryn Mawr College in 1939 and 1940. In the years 1942–1958, Hardy worked as a chemist at Calco Chemical Division, subsequently she worked as a literature chemist at Lederle Labs from 1958 to 1975. After working for Lederle, Hardy ... | Wikipedia - Elizabeth Hardy (chemist) - Career and research | 165 | 786 | null |
Section: Publications and patents. Hardy has a considerable number of publications and patents under her name and in collaboration with other scientists. The Introduction of Substituted Vinyl Groups. V. A Rearrangement Involving the Migration of an Allyl Group in a Three-Carbon System. Arthur C. Cope and Elizabeth M. H... | Wikipedia - Elizabeth Hardy (chemist) - Publications and patents | 347 | 1,444 | null |
Hardy, Bound Brook, Clement L. Kosloski, North Easton. Patented: July 29, 1958 Trichloromethyl benzenethio-sulfonates. Elizabeth M. Hardy and John F. Hosler, Bound Brook, Glentworth Lamb, Stamford. Patented: March 24, 1959 Trichloromethyl 2-methoxy-5-phosphono-benzenethiolsulfonate pesticides. Elizabeth M. Hardy, Hohok... | Wikipedia - Elizabeth Hardy (chemist) - Publications and patents | 262 | 902 | null |
Section: Career. While working towards her master's degree in chemistry, Harrison taught elementary school at the one-room country school in Audrain County, Missouri, where she had attended school as a child. She then taught chemistry at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, the coordinate women's college of Tulane Unive... | Wikipedia - Anna J. Harrison - Career | 341 | 1,775 | null |
In 1978 she became the first female president of the American Chemical Society. She also served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1983. As an educator and researcher, Harrison worked with many scientific organizations in the United States, particularly the American Chemical Soci... | Wikipedia - Anna J. Harrison - Career | 298 | 1,672 | null |
Section: Research. He assumed an independent position at Yale University in 1992. Over the next 14 years, he was promoted to associate professor, full professor and finally the Irénée duPont professorship. During this period, the Buchwald–Hartwig amination was developed. Here is an example of this reaction (OTf = trifl... | Wikipedia - John F. Hartwig - Research | 204 | 911 | null |
Section: Career. At Hercules, Heck soon became interested in organometallic chemistry, including work with David S. Breslow on organocobalt reactions. This led to the development of the Heck reaction, which began with his investigation during the late 1960s of the coupling of arylmercury compounds with olefins using pa... | Wikipedia - Richard F. Heck - Career | 337 | 1,708 | null |
Section: Career > Palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions. Heck's work set the stage for a variety of other palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions, including those of aryl halides with derivatives of boronic acid (Suzuki–Miyaura coupling), organotin reagents (Stille coupling), organomagnesium compounds (Kumada-Corriu co... | Wikipedia - Richard F. Heck - Career > Palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions | 283 | 1,194 | null |
Section: Later life and death. Heck retired from the University of Delaware in 1989, where he became the Willis F. Harrington Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Its annual lectureship was named in his honor in 2004. In 2005, he was awarded the Wallace H. Carothers Award, which recognize... | Wikipedia - Richard F. Heck - Later life and death | 237 | 1,115 | null |
Section: Biography. Born in Meriden, Connecticut, Hill earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1910 and a Ph.D. there in 1913. He joined Yale's faculty shortly thereafter, became a full professor by 1925, and later chaired the chemistry department. In 1942, while directing Yale's Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, he was app... | Wikipedia - Arthur Joseph Hill - Biography | 210 | 1,037 | null |
Section: Cannabinoid research. Beginning in 1984, Huffman and his team of researchers began synthesizing cannabinoid compounds with delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) properties for medical research purposes. Over the course of twenty years, Huffman and his team developed over 400 synthetic cannabinoid compounds which ... | Wikipedia - John W. Huffman - Cannabinoid research | 292 | 1,283 | null |
Section: Personal life. Charles Loring Jackson was born in Boston on April 4, 1847. His paternal grandfather was Charles Greely Loring, a Boston-based lawyer. He graduated from Harvard College in 1867 after studying in private schools in Boston. He joined the Harvard chemistry department as an assistant lecturer immedi... | Wikipedia - Charles Loring Jackson - Personal life | 160 | 840 | null |
Section: Learning chemistry. While studying chemistry at Harvard in 1873, Jackson had a slight attack of rheumatic fever. When he returned back to work his professor advised that he take a year's leave of absence and study in Europe. He, therefore, traveled to Heidelberg, Germany to study at Ruprecht Karl University of... | Wikipedia - Charles Loring Jackson - Learning chemistry | 219 | 1,069 | null |
Section: Research at Harvard. In 1875 after returning to Harvard Jackson synthesized the first new organic compound made in a Harvard laboratory, p-bromobenzyl bromide. This provided a method of producing substituted benzyl compounds with interesting results, such as a synthesis of anthracene. In the following years he... | Wikipedia - Charles Loring Jackson - Research at Harvard | 185 | 915 | null |
Section: The European connection. The importance of Jackson's studies in Europe to the development of the organic chemistry industry in the United States should not be underestimated. In the 1870s when Jackson traveled to Europe there literally was no organic synthesis being done in the United States either in academia... | Wikipedia - Charles Loring Jackson - The European connection | 237 | 1,286 | null |
Charles Loring Jackson, Biographical memoir of Henry Barker Hill, 1849-1903, National Academy of Sciences (January 1, 1905) ASIN B0008AF3CW Charles Loring Jackson, On certain colored substances derived from nitro compounds, ASIN B0008CBY1E Charles Loring Jackson, Charles Robert Sanger: [Biographical notice], Proceeding... | Wikipedia - Charles Loring Jackson - Publications > Scientific | 350 | 1,343 | null |
Section: Career. Jones' field of expertise is reactive intermediates, with particular emphasis on carbenes. He has published extensively in the field of quantum organic chemistry, particularly focusing on the mechanism of quantum molecular reactions. His interest areas include carbenes, carboranes, and heterocycles. Ov... | Wikipedia - Maitland Jones Jr. - Career | 180 | 919 | null |
Section: Career > Teaching. Jones is credited as being among the early adapters of the distance education technology, in the late 1960s, using the Victor Electrowriter Remote Blackboard (VERB) system. After retiring from Princeton in 2007, Jones taught organic chemistry at New York University until spring 2022 on annua... | Wikipedia - Maitland Jones Jr. - Career > Teaching | 298 | 1,534 | null |
Section: Textbooks. Jones is the first author of an influential textbook on Organic Chemistry. The book, first published in 1997, is now in its fifth edition (2014). Organic Chemistry, Jones, M. Jr., Fleming, S.A., W. W. Norton, New York, 1997 Instructor's Manual and Supplementary Problems Set for Organic Chemistry, Jo... | Wikipedia - Maitland Jones Jr. - Textbooks | 204 | 714 | null |
Article: Madeleine M. Joullié. Madeleine M. Joullié (born March 29, 1927) is an American-Brazilian organic chemist. She was the first woman to join the University of Pennsylvania chemistry faculty as well as the first female organic chemist to be appointed to a tenure track position in a major American university. She ... | Wikipedia - Madeleine M. Joullié - Summary | 209 | 1,050 | null |
Section: Early life. Madeleine Joullié was born in Paris, France. Her father, an international businessman, soon moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she attended the Lycée Français. The family also lived briefly in São Paulo. There she attended a private school, the Liceu Rio Branco. Joullié moved to the United Stat... | Wikipedia - Madeleine M. Joullié - Early life | 219 | 958 | null |
Section: Career. In 1953, Madeleine Joullié joined the University of Pennsylvania chemistry faculty, the first woman to do so. Originally in a non-tenure-track position, Joullié taught undergraduate organic chemistry five days a week and ran the lab. In her first five years, none of the graduate students would work wit... | Wikipedia - Madeleine M. Joullié - Career | 204 | 971 | null |
Section: Career > Community involvement. Joullié was active in the safety committee at UPenn, helping to identify and enforce safe work guidelines for the chemistry department. In 1970, Joullié and Mildred Cohn worked on the Committee on the Status of Women, which gathered data and documented the second-class status of... | Wikipedia - Madeleine M. Joullié - Career > Community involvement | 294 | 1,507 | null |
Section: Career > Scientific achievements. Early in her career, her Ph.D. advisor, Allan R. Day, interested her in heterocyclic compounds, and she did early work with aromatic and heterocyclic scaffolds and fluorinated heterocycles. She also did significant research on heterocyclic ketones in the 1970s, collaborating w... | Wikipedia - Madeleine M. Joullié - Career > Scientific achievements | 328 | 1,406 | null |
By capturing and delivering cortisone molecules, it decreases the growth of new capillaries. Chemotherapies can thus target aberrant angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels, and restrict the growth of malignant tumours. Joullié's specialized compounds made Folkman's original treatments 100 to 1000 times more pote... | Wikipedia - Madeleine M. Joullié - Career > Scientific achievements | 347 | 1,604 | null |
Section: Awards. Madeleine M. Joullié has received a substantial number of awards, including the following: John Scott Medal (2015) Edward Leete Award (2009) Arthur C. Cope Senior Scholar Award (2002) from the American Chemical Society Distinguished Achievement Award University of Pennsylvania Graduate Student Associat... | Wikipedia - Madeleine M. Joullié - Awards | 166 | 821 | null |
Article: Percy Lavon Julian. 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. Julian was the first person to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in industrial large-scale chemical synthes... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Summary | 250 | 1,253 | null |
Section: Education and academic career. At a time when access to an education beyond the eighth grade was extremely rare for African Americans, Julian's parents steered all of their children toward higher education. Julian attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. The college accepted few African-American stu... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Education and academic career | 333 | 1,615 | null |
there. In 1929, while an instructor at Howard University, Julian received a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to continue his graduate work at the University of Vienna, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1931. He studied under Ernst Späth and was considered an impressive student. Europe gave him freedom from the racial preju... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Education and academic career | 335 | 1,638 | null |
Julian had recommended Thompson for dismissal in March 1932. Thompson sued Julian for "alienating the affections of his wife", Anna Roselle Thompson, stating he had seen them together in a sexual tryst. Julian counter-sued him for libel. When Thompson was fired, he too gave the paper intimate and personal letters which... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Education and academic career | 325 | 1,517 | null |
Julian then helped Josef Pikl, a fellow student at the University of Vienna, to come to the United States to work with him at DePauw. In 1935, Julian and Pikl completed the total synthesis of physostigmine and confirmed the structural formula assigned to it. Robert Robinson of Oxford University in the U.K. had been the... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Education and academic career | 229 | 1,015 | null |
Section: Private sector work: Glidden > Hiring. In 1936 Julian was denied a professorship at DePauw for racial reasons. DuPont offered a job to Pikl, but declined to hire Julian, despite his superlative qualifications as an organic chemist, apologizing that they were "unaware he was black". Julian next applied for a jo... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Private sector work: Glidden > Hiring | 275 | 1,271 | null |
Section: Private sector work: Glidden > Soy protein. Julian supervised the assembly of the plant at Glidden when he arrived in 1936. He then designed and supervised the construction of the world's first plant for the production of industrial-grade, isolated soy protein from oil-free soybean meal. Isolated soy protein c... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Private sector work: Glidden > Soy protein | 322 | 1,488 | null |
Section: Private sector work: Glidden > Steroids. Percy's research at Glidden changed direction in 1940 when he began work on synthesizing progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone from the plant sterols stigmasterol and sitosterol, isolated from soybean oil by a foam technique he invented and patented. At that time, cl... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Private sector work: Glidden > Steroids | 341 | 1,554 | null |
He saved many lives with this discovery. On April 13, 1949, rheumatologist Philip Hench at the Mayo Clinic announced the dramatic effectiveness of cortisone in treating rheumatoid arthritis. The cortisone was produced by Merck at great expense using a complex 36-step synthesis developed by chemist Lewis Sarett, startin... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Private sector work: Glidden > Steroids | 320 | 1,386 | null |
On April 5, 1952, biochemist Durey Peterson and microbiologist Herbert Murray at Upjohn published the first report of a fermentation process for the microbial 11α-oxygenation of steroids in a single step (by common molds of the order Mucorales). Their fermentation process could produce 11α-hydroxyprogesterone or 11α-hy... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Private sector work: Glidden > Steroids | 322 | 1,326 | null |
In 1953, Glidden decided to leave the steroid business, which had been relatively unprofitable over the years despite Julian's innovative work. On December 1, 1953, Julian left Glidden after 18 years, giving up a salary of nearly $50,000 a year (equivalent to $590,000 in 2024) to found his own company, Julian Laborator... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Private sector work: Glidden > Steroids | 188 | 800 | null |
Section: Oak Park and Julian Laboratories. Around 1950, Julian moved his family to the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, becoming the first African-American family to reside there. Although some residents welcomed them, there was also opposition. Before they moved in, on Thanksgiving Day, 1950, their home was firebombed. Lat... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Oak Park and Julian Laboratories | 332 | 1,557 | null |
Senate subcommittee. They testified that Syntex was using undue influence to monopolize access to the Mexican yam. The hearings resulted in Syntex signing a consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department. While it did not admit to restraining trade, it promised not to do so in the future. Within five years, large Amer... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Oak Park and Julian Laboratories | 347 | 1,460 | null |
Despite continually falling bulk prices of steroid intermediates, an oligopoly of large American multinational pharmaceutical companies kept the wholesale prices of corticosteroid drugs fixed and unchanged into the 1960s. Cortisone was fixed at $5.48 per gram from 1954, hydrocortisone at $7.99 per gram from 1954, and p... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Oak Park and Julian Laboratories | 296 | 1,297 | null |
Section: Honors and legacy. In 1947, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. In 1950, the Chicago Sun-Times named Percy Julian the Chicagoan of the Year. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973 in recognition of his scientific achievements. He became the second African American to be induct... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Honors and legacy | 347 | 1,728 | null |
Section: Honors and legacy > Nova documentary. Ruben Santiago-Hudson portrayed Percy Julian in the Public Broadcasting Service Nova documentary about his life, called "Forgotten Genius". It was presented on the PBS network on February 6, 2007, sponsored by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation with further funding b... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Honors and legacy > Nova documentary | 214 | 1,105 | null |
Section: Patents. U.S. patent 2,218,971, October 22, 1940, Recovery of sterols U.S. patent 2,373,686, July 15, 1942, Phosphatide product and method of making U.S. patent 2,752,339, June 26, 1956, Preparation of cortisone U.S. patent 3,149,132, September 15, 1964, 16-aminomenthyl-17-alkyltestosterone derivatives U.S. pa... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Patents | 182 | 562 | null |
Section: Publications. On the Progenitors of Certain Plant Alkaloids and the Mechanism of their Formation in the Plant Structure; Percy L. Julian. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 1933, 43, pp 122–126. Studies in the Indole Series. I. The Synthesis of Alpha-Benzylindoles; Percy L. Julian, Josef Pikl; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1933, 55... | Wikipedia - Percy Lavon Julian - Publications | 253 | 769 | null |
Section: Biography. Kelly attended State University of New York at Fredonia, graduting in 1982. He received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1986) and performed post-doctoral research at The Rockefeller University (1986–89). He is former Dean of Graduate Studies (2000... | Wikipedia - Jeffery W. Kelly - Biography | 314 | 1,491 | null |
Section: Honors and awards. 1991 - Searle Scholar Award 1999 - Biophysical Society National Lecturer (Award) 1999 - Protein Society-Dupont Young Investigator Award 2000 - SUNY at Fredonia Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award 2001 - American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award 2006 - National Institutes of H... | Wikipedia - Jeffery W. Kelly - Honors and awards | 211 | 1,102 | null |
Section: Significant Papers. 1992 Colon, W.; Kelly, J.W. "Partial Denaturation of Transthyretin is Sufficient for Amyloid Fibril Formation In Vitro." Biochemistry, 31 8654-8660. 2001 Jager, M.; Nguyen, H.; Crane, J.C.; Kelly, J.W.; Gruebele, M. "The Folding Mechanism of a β-Sheet: The WW Domain" J. Mol. Biol., 311, 373... | Wikipedia - Jeffery W. Kelly - Significant Papers | 339 | 946 | null |
2004 Deechongkit, S.; Nguyen, H.; Dawson, P.E.; Gruebele, M.; Kelly, J.W. “Context Dependent Contributions of Backbone H-Bonding to β-Sheet Folding Energetics” Nature 430, 101-105. 2005 Sekijima, Y., Wiseman, R.L., Matteson, J., Hammarström, P., Miller,S.R., Balch, W.E., Kelly, J.W. “Biological and Chemical Basis for T... | Wikipedia - Jeffery W. Kelly - Significant Papers | 320 | 862 | null |
“Adapting Proteostasis For Disease Intervention” Science 319, 916-919. 2010 Wiley; died in a car crash 2011 Culyba, E.K.; Price, J.L.; Hanson, S.R.; Dhar, A,; Wong, C-H.; Gruebele, M.; Powers, E.T.; Kelly, J.W. “Protein Native State Stabilization by Placing Aromatic Side Chains in N-Glycosylated Reverse Turns” Science ... | Wikipedia - Jeffery W. Kelly - Significant Papers | 338 | 876 | null |
Section: Education and academic career. Koelsch was born in Boise, Idaho in 1907 in a family of German descent. He attended the University of Wisconsin and earned his bachelor's degree in 1928 and his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1931, working under the supervision of Samuel M. McElvain. After a postdoctoral fell... | Wikipedia - C. Frederick Koelsch - Education and academic career | 317 | 1,538 | null |
Section: Career. After completing his Ph.D., Kohler was appointed as an instructor at Bryn Mawr College. He became a professor there in 1900 and later became head of the chemistry department. In 1912, he moved to Harvard University, becoming the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor two years later and the Sheldon Emery ... | Wikipedia - Elmer Peter Kohler - Career | 222 | 1,147 | null |
Section: Career. In 1946, he joined Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Indiana, where most of his discoveries took place. In 1953, Kornfeld and his team discovered a microbe, Streptomyces orientalis, which was found in soil samples from Borneo. Later that year, they discovered that this microbe produced a unique co... | Wikipedia - Edmund Kornfeld - Career | 331 | 1,566 | null |
Due to the spread of the bacteria, a high dosage of the antibiotic 05865 was recommended, 100 mg every eight hours, over five days. After the first day, the heat was decreasing, his white cell count was dropping, and the exudate of his wound was less. During the next seven days, the staphylococci disappeared from the w... | Wikipedia - Edmund Kornfeld - Career | 215 | 907 | null |
Section: Career > Eli Lilly and Company. Lechleiter joined Eli Lilly and Company in 1979 as senior organic chemist. From 1984 to 1986, he served as director of pharmaceutical product development at the Lilly Research Centre Limited in Windlesham, England. In 1986, he returned to the U.S. as manager of research and deve... | Wikipedia - John C. Lechleiter - Career > Eli Lilly and Company | 329 | 1,657 | null |
Lechleiter was elected as Lilly’s president and chief executive officer (CEO), effective April 1, 2008. Effective January 1, 2009, Lechleiter was appointed as chairman of the company's board of directors, succeeding Sidney Taurel. In 2012, he earned US$15.57 million, according to Forbes. He is credited with successfull... | Wikipedia - John C. Lechleiter - Career > Eli Lilly and Company | 158 | 682 | null |
Section: Career > Board and organizational memberships. Lechleiter is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Business Roundtable and The Business Council. He is Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and President of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & As... | Wikipedia - John C. Lechleiter - Career > Board and organizational memberships | 253 | 1,316 | null |
Section: Research. Lectka's research expertise lies in areas of catalysis in synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry. He has contributed to the discovery of metal-catalyzed amide isomerization, and metal-catalyzed alkane fluorination, along with the development of first practical method for the catalytic, asymmetri... | Wikipedia - Thomas Lectka - Research | 274 | 1,252 | null |
As a vellow at Harvard University, he focused on the asymmetric catalysis of the Diels-Alder reaction using bisoxazoline and bisimine Lewis acid complexes. After joining Johns Hopkins University in 1994, Lectka conducted research on new catalytic and asymmetric reactions, along with enantioselective reactions of imines... | Wikipedia - Thomas Lectka - Research | 329 | 1,421 | null |
Section: Career. After leaving academia in 1975, he joined Procter & Gamble. While working at P&G, he improved their laundry detergent products. After that, he joined the research group that created Olestra. Letton also served as president of Kentucky State University's alumni association from 1979 to 1984. Letton held... | Wikipedia - James C. Letton - Career | 229 | 1,109 | null |
Section: Education. C.-J. Li was born in 1963, and obtained his BSc from Zhengzhou University (1979–1983), and completed his MSc. in organic synthesis at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1985–1988) with Prof. T.H. Chan. He then moved to McGill University (Montréal, Québec) to do his PhD (1989–1992) with Prof. T.H. Chan... | Wikipedia - Chao-Jun Li - Education | 175 | 663 | null |
Section: Career and research. C.-J. Li started as an assistant professor at Tulane University in 1994, and attained the title of Professor of Chemistry in 2000. He then moved in 2003 to McGill University, where he obtained a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Green Chemistry. He has also been the director of NSERC CREAT... | Wikipedia - Chao-Jun Li - Career and research | 332 | 1,426 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Reactions in water: Indium-mediated allylations in water The Barbier–Grignard-type alkylation of aldehydes using unactivated alkyl iodides in water The Barbier–Grignard-type arylation of aldehydes using unactivated aryl iodides in water Silver-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Aldehydes in Wate... | Wikipedia - Chao-Jun Li - Selected publications | 224 | 873 | null |
Section: Education and career. Iris Lillian Doerr Long was born December 8, 1934, in New York City, New York. Her family was of German descent. At Hunter College, she completed a bachelor of arts in 1955 and a master of arts in chemistry in 1964. Long worked as an organic chemist in several research hospitals, includin... | Wikipedia - Iris Long - Education and career | 219 | 1,063 | null |
Section: Activism. Despite having no connection to the gay community, or HIV/AIDS sufferers, Long began to volunteer with the Community Research Initiative (CRI), distributing drugs that could possibly help against the virus to those infected. Many of the drugs being taken were anti-cancer drugs. However, around March ... | Wikipedia - Iris Long - Activism | 176 | 897 | null |
Article: James Cullen Martin. James Cullen Martin (January 14, 1928 – April 20, 1999) was an American chemist. Known in the field as "J.C.", he specialized in physical organic chemistry with an emphasis on main group element chemistry. Martin received his undergraduate and master's degree at Vanderbilt University. His ... | Wikipedia - James Cullen Martin - Summary | 303 | 1,414 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Carl Shipp Marvel was born on September 11, 1894, in Waynesville, Illinois, U.S., to farmers John Thomas Marvel and Mary Lucy Wasson Marvel. An uncle urged him to study chemistry. Marvel attended Illinois Wesleyan University from 1911 to 1915. He graduated with an A.B. and M.S. in che... | Wikipedia - Carl Shipp Marvel - Early life and education | 329 | 1,679 | null |
Marvel was known for his ability to modify poor procedures to make them more effective, and to describe procedures so that others could follow them. Many of these laboratory procedures were later published, first as pamphlets on Organic Chemical Reagents, by Roger Adams, O. Kamm, and C. S. Marvel, and later in the jour... | Wikipedia - Carl Shipp Marvel - Early life and education | 163 | 779 | null |
Section: University of Illinois. Marvel joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois as an instructor, in 1920. He was promoted to associate in 1921, an assistant professor in 1923, an associate professor in 1927, and to Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1930. Until 1940, he also supervised the Orga... | Wikipedia - Carl Shipp Marvel - University of Illinois | 324 | 1,745 | null |
Using techniques such as determinations of elemental analysis, average molecular weight, end-group analysis, and examination of products, Marvel demonstrated a chemical methodology for establishing the principal structural features of polymers. With his ability to improvise and refine new techniques, he made "major fun... | Wikipedia - Carl Shipp Marvel - University of Illinois | 269 | 1,389 | null |
Section: University of Illinois > DuPont Central Research. In 1928, Marvel was recommended by Roger Adams as a consultant for DuPont Central Research. In the course of nearly 60 years, Marvel gave 19,000 individual consultations. When asked to test the finding of English chemist F. E. Matthews that polysulfones could b... | Wikipedia - Carl Shipp Marvel - University of Illinois > DuPont Central Research | 155 | 709 | null |
Section: University of Illinois > United States Rubber Reserve. Marvel participated heavily in the U.S. synthetic rubber program when supplies of natural rubber were disrupted during World War II. The availability of rubber was essential to the war effort. Beginning in September 1940, Marvel worked with Section C-2, Sy... | Wikipedia - Carl Shipp Marvel - University of Illinois > United States Rubber Reserve | 316 | 1,627 | null |
Section: University of Illinois > Teaching. Marvel is credited, with Roger Adams and Reynold C. Fuson, with making the organic chemistry program at Illinois "preeminent in the United States". As an instructor, Marvel saw the importance of working on essential problems. He also emphasized "that the essential product of ... | Wikipedia - Carl Shipp Marvel - University of Illinois > Teaching | 183 | 859 | null |
Section: University of Arizona > High temperature polymers. Marvel made important advances in the development of high temperature polymers, including polybenzimidazoles and ladder polymers, using techniques of polyaddition and cyclopolymerization. Marvel was contacted by Wright Patterson Air Force Base in the 1950s, be... | Wikipedia - Carl Shipp Marvel - University of Arizona > High temperature polymers | 324 | 1,555 | null |
Marvel had taken the first steps towards a process for creating ladder-type polymers as early as 1938, when he attempted the cyclization of poly(methyl vinyl ketone). In the 1950s, he outlined a precursor approach to the creation of poly(para-phenylene) (PPP), a particularly difficult process. Marvel's approach contain... | Wikipedia - Carl Shipp Marvel - University of Arizona > High temperature polymers | 306 | 1,449 | null |
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