Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Robert Burns Woodward


Related Topics
YSU

In the News (Mon 30 Nov 09)

  
  Robert Burns Woodward Biography | scit_0712345_package.xml
Robert Woodward was a Nobel Prize-winning chemist who developed numerous techniques for producing complex chemical compounds in the laboratory.
Woodward was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1917.
Woodward went on to synthesize many other stereospecific organic compounds, including cortisone (a human hormone), cholesterol, reserpine (a tranquilizing drug that was once obtained from the roots of certain tropical plants), chlorophyll, and cephalosporin C (an antibiotic).
www.bookrags.com /biography/robert-burns-woodward-scit-0712345   (641 words)

  
 Robert Burns Woodward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Burns Woodward (April 10, 1917–July 8, 1979) was an American organic chemist.
Woodward collected together a large amount of empirical data, and then devised a series of rules later called the Woodward rules, which could be applied to finding out the structures of new natural substances, as well as non-natural synthesized molecules.
In the early 1950s, Woodward, along with a Harvard colleague, the British chemist Geoffrey Wilkinson, postulated a novel structure for ferrocene, a compound consisting of a combination of an organic molecule with iron.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_B._Woodward   (2416 words)

  
 Bob Woodward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is one of the best-known journalists in the United States, thanks largely to his work in helping uncover the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation, in a historical journalistic partnership with Carl Bernstein, while working as a reporter for The Washington Post.
Woodward was born in Geneva, Illinois, the son of Alfred E. Woodward, a judge.
Woodward was discharged from the Navy in August 1970.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Woodward   (2317 words)

  
 Woodward, Robert Burns
Robert Burns Woodward was born in Boston on April 10th, 1917, the only child of Margaret Burns, a native of Glasgow, and Arthur Woodward, of English antecedents, who died in October, 1918, at the age of thirty-three.
Woodward was attracted to chemistry at a very early age, and indulged his taste for the science in private activities throughout the period of his primary and secondary education in the public schools of Quincy, a suburb of Boston.
Woodward married Irja Pullman in 1938, and Eudoxia Muller in 1946.
www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/biographies/mainbiographies/W/Woodward1/Woodward.htm   (366 words)

  
 R. B. Woodward
Robert Burns Woodward, who won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, took a degree of Bachelor of Science in 1936 and a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1937 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Robert Burns Woodward was born in Boston in 1917 but by the time he was twenty he had already graduated from M.I.T. with both a B.S. and a doctorate in chemistry.
Robert Burns Woodward took the degrees of Bachelor of Science in 1936 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1937 in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
virtual.parkland.edu /ns/che/203/paragraphs/woodward.htm   (1442 words)

  
 Robert Burns Woodward, April 10, 1917 — July 8, 1979 | By Elkan Blout | Biographical Memoirs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
OBERT BURNS WOODWARD WAS the preeminent organic chemist of the twentieth century.
Woodward now began what may be the most beautiful synthesis of his life, the synthesis (1956) of the medicinally important alkaloid reserpine.
Woodward's conclusion that he would be able to use the porphyrin to chlorin transformation was the key to his synthesis but was not supported on the basis of any known change from a suitably constructed porphyrin molecule.
www.nap.edu /readingroom/books/biomems/rwoodward.html   (5505 words)

  
 Woodward, Robert Burns
Woodward was attracted to chemistry at an early age and entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1933.
Woodward correlated the work of this project into a final deduction of structure (1945) and, during the next two decades, championed the development of several spectroscopic techniques, which have reduced the problem of structure determination to a relatively commonplace procedure.
Woodward's achievements in the field of structure determination were more than mere solutions of particular problems: they were demonstrations of new approaches and reasoning that have guided others and increased the power of the discipline.
www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/644_32.html   (857 words)

  
 Robert Burns Woodward Information Center - Robert Burns Woodward
Robert Burns Woodward (April 10, 1917 – July 8, 1979) was an American organic chemist, widely regarded as the preeminent organic chemist of the century.
Woodward collected together a large amount of empirical data, and then devised a series of rules later called the Woodward rules, which could be applied to finding out the structures of new natural substances, as well as non-natural synthesized molecules.
Woodward formulated his ideas (which were based on the symmetry properties of molecular orbitals) based on his experiences as a synthetic organic chemist; he asked Hoffman to perform theoretical calculations to verify these ideas, which were done using Hoffmann's Extended Hückel method.
www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Chemistry_Topics_Pr_-_R/Robert_Burns_Woodward.html   (2377 words)

  
 Robert Burns Woodward - The Harvard Chemist
Robert Burns Woodward was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, on April 10, 1917, to Margaret and Arthur Woodward.
Woodward displayed an remarkable resurgence in scholarly pursuits and completed his BS in 1936 (age 19) and his PhD in 1937 (age 20).
Woodward was also associated with the Woodward Research Institute in Basel, Switzerland, and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/biographies_scientists/89637   (487 words)

  
 Woodward, Robert Burns
Robert Burns Woodward is generally recognized as the leading organic chemist of the twentieth century.
Woodward was born on April 10, 1917, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Woodward died from a heart attack on July 8, 1979, but not before teaching generations of chemists the fine art of organic synthesis.
www.chemistryexplained.com /Va-Z/Woodward-Robert-Burns.html   (785 words)

  
 Robert Burns Woodward Summary
Robert B. Woodward was arguably the greatest organic synthesis chemist of the twentieth century.
Robert Burns Woodward was born in Boston on April 10, 1917, to Arthur and Margaret (Burns) Woodward.
Woodward was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Arthur Woodward (an immigrant from England) and Margaret Woodward, nee Burns (an immigrant from Scotland, born in Glasgow).
www.bookrags.com /Robert_Burns_Woodward   (4914 words)

  
 MSU Chemistry - Gallery of Chemists' Photo-Portraits and Mini-Biographies - Individual
Robert Burns Woodward was the foremost synthetic organic chemist of his time.
It is not surprising that the 1965 Nobel Prize was awarded to Robert Burns Woodward for his "meritorious contributions to the art of organic synthesis".
Woodward's analytical skill and mechanistically oriented approach allowed him to solve many of the great structural problems of his day.
www.chemistry.msu.edu /Portraits/PortraitsHH_Detail.asp?HH_LName=WoodwardA   (217 words)

  
 History Channel Search Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Woodward was born in Boston, and educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1963 he became director of the Woodward Research Institute in Basel, Switzerland.
Woodward synthesized (1951) cholesterol and cortisone and subsequently supervised (1954) the research that led to the synthesis of strychnine.
www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..wo069800.a   (151 words)

  
 Woodward Robert Burns: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
It was: "Robert burns." 15 In 1895, in a short speech...hand I took his book, which was "Robert Burns." In a few days I had a copy; and...and by Ayr in Scotland where Robert Burns was born.
Andrea A. Burns is a Ph.D. candidate in the...
Woodward is best known for his chemical synthesis of the organic substances quinine...
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/woodward_robert_burns.jsp   (1394 words)

  
 More info about the poet: Robert Burns - references bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Burns was born at Alloway near Ayr on 25th January 1759, the eldest of a family of seven born to William and Agnes...
The birthplace of Robert Burns in Alloway, Ayrshire, is the heart of this open air museum focusing on the poet's life and the countryside which inspired him...
Robert B. Woodward Robert Burns Woodward was born in Boston on April 10th, 1917, the only child of Margaret Burns, a native of Glasgow, and Arthur Woodward,...
www.poemhunter.com /robert-burns/resources   (806 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Woodward was awarded a Nobel prize in Chemistry for his achievements.
Woodward was involved in the controversy over the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Ernst Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson.
Woodward believed his contributions in the study of organometallic sandwich compound should also have been recognized.
www.chm.bris.ac.uk /webprojects2002/jeffrey/woodward.htm   (326 words)

  
 MSU Chemistry - Gallery of Chemists' Photo-Portraits and Mini-Biographies - Individual
The Woodward Rules, published when he was only 23, correlate structures of α,β-unsaturated ketones with their ultraviolet absorption spectra.
Besides his unfailing personal courtesy and wry sense of humor, Robert Burns Woodward's most characteristic attributes were precision in style, evident in all he said, wrote or did.
Woodward had a passion for the color blue; note the suit, tie, chair, wall and drapes; he was also a chain smoker (note the tip of his forefinger).
www.chemistry.msu.edu /Portraits/PortraitsHH_Detail.asp?HH_LName=WoodwardB   (243 words)

  
 Robert Burns Woodward - Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Woodward, Robert Burns 1917-80, American chemist and educator, b.
Robert F. Williams and the promise of southern biography.
Jock culture: Robert Lipsyte on Paul Gallico's Farewell to Sport and the importance of destroying your illusions.(Critical essay)
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-WoodwdRB.html   (348 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The third chemist involved in the row, Robert Burns Woodward, received his Nobel prize in 1965 but died in 1979.
Woodward was working on the synthesis of vitamin B12, and was trying to find out why the molecular geometry of some reaction products was the opposite of that predicted by theory.
Scientists who were in the Corey and Woodward labs at the time say that they are embarrassed by the episode, and puzzled that Corey should reveal his claim after 40 years of silence.
www.nature.com /news/2004/041122/pf/432427a_pf.html   (680 words)

  
 Media Reviews
Robert Burns Woodward, born on April 10, 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts, was a precocious and lively child who received his primary and secondary education in the public schools of Quincy, the Boston suburb where he lived [1].
Woodward developed syntheses of molecules with many asymmetric centers, using new reactions and reagents and newly revealed mechanisms from physical organic chemistry to control the stereochemical courses of reactions.
Woodward made outstanding contributions spanning almost the entire range of theoretical and experimental organic chemistry, and he was universally acclaimed as the world's leading exponent of organic chemistry.
chemeducator.org /bibs/0008001/810076mr.htm   (11344 words)

  
 Woodward Robert Burns - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Woodward Robert Burns - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Woodward, Robert Burns (1917-1979), American chemist and Nobel laureate, noted for his work in chemical synthesis.
Search for books about your topic, "Woodward Robert Burns"
encarta.msn.com /Woodward_Robert_Burns.html   (123 words)

  
 Columbia Encyclopedia- Woodward Robert Burns - AOL Research & Learn
He was one of the first to determine the structure of such organic chemical compounds as penicillin (1945), strychnine (1947), terramycin (1952), and aureomycin (1952).
Woodward is best known for his chemical synthesis of the organic substances quinine (1944), patulin (1950), cholesterol (1951), cortisone (1951), strychnine, lysergic acid, lanosterol (1954), reserpine (1956), chlorophyll (1960), and tetracycline (1962).
For this work in organic synthesis he was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/woodward-robert-burns/20051208012109990011   (139 words)

  
 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1965 - Presentation Speech
Professor Woodward has a special liking for synthetic undertakings which are generally regarded as practically impossible.
I shall here touch upon a number of his most famous achievements, some of the substances in question being well-known from the columns of the daily press.
Professor Woodward's activity has by no means been restricted to synthetic work.
www.angelfire.com /ultra2/ghbdtn/123/woodward-bio-press.html   (995 words)

  
 Robert Burns Woodward --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The settlement was built on a former cattle ranch and named for the Scottish poet Robert Burns.
As the capital of a vast cattle empire, it became the administrative headquarters for grazing lands retained in...
Scotland's greatest poet, Robert Burns, wrote in Scots, the English dialect of the country he loved so deeply.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077435?tocId=9077435&query=c.   (740 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Robert Burns Woodward and the Art of Organic Synthesis: To Accompany an Exhibit by the Beckman Center for ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Amazon.com: Robert Burns Woodward and the Art of Organic Synthesis: To Accompany an Exhibit by the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry (Publication / Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry): Books: Mary Ellen Bowden
Robert Burns Woodward and the Art of Organic Synthesis: To Accompany an Exhibit by the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry (Publication / Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry) (Paperback)
Robert Burns Woodward : Architect and Artist in the World of by Editor, Otto Theodor Benfrey
www.amazon.com /Robert-Burns-Woodward-Organic-Synthesis/dp/0941901084   (691 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.