Charles John Pedersen was born in Pusan, Korea in 1904. His father was a Norwegian sailor who later became a mechanical engineer and his Japanese mother came from a family of silkworm traders. Pederse...
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Charles Pedersen is credited with the discovery of crown ethers. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery but not for eighteen years after he first published his research. Pedersen was bor...
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Charles John Pedersen
Charles Pedersen