(born April 10, 1917, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died July 8, 1979, Cambridge, Mass.) American chemist best known for his syntheses of complex organic substances, including cholesterol and cortisone (1951), strychnine (1954), and vitamin B12 (1971). He...

1917-1979 American Chemist Robert Woodward was a Nobel Prize-winning chemist who developed numerous techniques for producing complex chemical compounds in the laboratory. Many of the methods he developed are used today to produce compounds that were...

(born April 10, 1917, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died July 8, 1979, Cambridge, Mass.) U.S. chemist. He attended MIT and taught at Harvard University (1938–79). Recognizing that physical measurement revealed molecular structure better than chemical...

1917-1979 American biochemist who was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesizing many organic and biologically important chemicals. Woodward was the first person to successfully synthesize chlorophyll, cholesterol, and vitamin B12. He...

Robert Burns Woodward (April 10, 1917–July 8, 1979) was an American organic chemist. He made many important contributions to modern organic chemistry, especially in the synthesis and structure determination of complex natural products, and worked...