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  William von Eggers Doering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William von Eggers Doering (born 22 June 1917 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and the former Chair of its Chemistry Department.
He is known in the field of organic chemistry for his work on quinine.
William von Eggers Doering - Michigan State University
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 Oral History Search Results: Detail
William von Eggers Doering begins these interviews with a discussion of his early life and family background.
Doering was influenced by his teachers during his early education to pursue science.
Doering outlines his relationship with Woodward, the difficulties of the quinine work, and the impact of that research on his career.
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 April in chemistry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
William Vernon Harcourt died 1871 (birth date unknown in June 1789): founder of British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA); chemical analysis, effect of heat on inorganic substances.
Robert Burns Woodward and William von Eggers Doering reported a formal synthesis of quinine in 1944.
William Cullen born 1710: noted the cooling effects of evaporation and of gas expansion.
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 Timeline of biology and organic chemistry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1865 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz realizes that benzene is composed of carbon and hydrogen atoms in a hexagonal ring.
1944 - Robert Burns Woodward and William von Eggers Doering synthesize quinine.
1977 - John Corliss, Jack Dymond, Louis Gordon, John Edmond, Richard von Herzen, Robert Ballard, Kenneth Green, David Williams, Arnold Bainbridge, Kathy Crane, and Tjeerd van Andel discover chemosynthetically based animal communities located around submarine hydrothermal vents on the Galapagos Rift.
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 MSU Chemistry - Genealogy Work Area - D   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In the case of my academic grandfather, William von Eggers Doering, for whom the "debate" is whether he studied with Linstead or Woodward, it's pretty straightforward and the answer, as you correctly show, is Reginald Patrick Linstead.
I know Doering reasonably well, and have personally attended a retrospective talk he gave on the occasion of his 80th birthday in which he referred to his Ph.D. advisor as Linstead.
The other modestly confusing thing is that Doering got his degree at Harvard, but Linstead's appointment was at Imperial College, whereas Woodward was at Harvard.
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 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Chem 20 To Eliminate Fall Labs Next Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He added that it was difficult to arrange a meaningful lab when students know so little organic chemistry.
Doering said that the new lab system will not handicap pre-med students.
Doering said that medical schools do not specify a full year of lab in organic chemistry courses.
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In 1944 Woodward, with William von Eggers Doering, synthesized quinine from the basic elements.
This was an historic moment for it was the quinine molecule that William Perkin had first, somewhat prematurely, attempted to synthesize in 1855.
Woodward and his school later succeeded in synthesizing an impressive number of molecules, many of which are important far beyond the field of chemistry.
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 Harvard University Department of Chemistry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Department of Materials, University of Oxford - The University of Oxford's Department of Materials was founded in the 1950s as the Department of Metallurgy, by William Hume-Rothery, who was a reader in Oxford's Department of Inorganic Chemistry.
William von Eggers Doering - William von Eggers Doering (born 22 June 1917 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and the former Chair of its Chemistry Department.
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 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Mallinckrodt Gift Funds Six Chairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The four new Mallinckrodt Professors are Robert V. Pound and J. Street in Physics, William von Eggers Doering in Chemistry, and Paul M. Doty in Biochemistry.
In 1943, Doering was the first to synthesize quinine (with Robert B. Woodward, Donner Professor of Science).
One of the founders of Harvard's new Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Doty was a pioneer in the study of macromolecules.
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Längst kursiert eine Gegen-Petition von insgesamt 5831 Hochschulangehörigen und Ehemaligen, die den Israel-Kritikern vorwerfen, einseitig Partei zu nehmen und die Geschichte der letzten Jahre zu ignorieren.
Israel habe "ein Recht, frei von Terror zu existieren", betonen sie.
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 Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Insufficient understanding of molecular structure hampered the organic chemists of the mid-nineteenth century, but such was the irresistible progress of the science that in at least one significant episode even this shortcoming actually turned out to be an advantage.
At the time (the 1840's) there were few organic chemists of note in Great Britain, and August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), who had worked under Liebig, was imported to London from Germany.
Woodward began his triumphs in synthesis when he and his American colleague, William von Eggers Doering (1917-?), synthesized quinine in 1944.
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 TIME.com: From Coal Tar -- May 15, 1944 -- Page 1
So ended a 90-year-old search for a method of manufacturing a synthetic for the drug that the Japs (by their seizure of the natural supply in the East Indies) have made a critical weapon of war.
Robert Burns Woodward, 27, and his 2 7-year-old associate William von Eggers Doering detailed the 15 difficult steps of their process, in sentences bristling with 20-letter chemists' words.
Chemists Woodward and Doering had made only 1/100th of an ounce from five pounds of expensive, involved chemicals.
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 Chronology of Biology and Organic Chemistry
Robert Woodward and William von Eggers Doering synthesize quinine.
Erwin Chargaff shows that in DNA the number of guanine units equals the number of cytosine units and the number of adenine units equals the number of thymine units.
John Corliss, Jack Dymond, Louis Gordon, John Edmond, Richard von Herzen, Robert Ballard, Kenneth Green, David Williams, Arnold Bainbridge, Kathy Crane, and Tjeerd van Andel discover chemosynthetically based animal communities located around submarine thermal springs on the Galapagos Rift.
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 Quinine - The Discovery of Quinine
In 1908, P. Rabe theorized the correct chemical structure of quinine.
This structure was not confirmed, however, until 1944 when American chemist Robert Burns Woodward (1917-1989; 1965 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry) and William von Eggers Doering first successfully synthesized the chemical.
This was an amazing achievement of synthetic organic chemistry, but of little commercial value as the cost of the process was too high to be practical.
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 Gordon W. Gribble's Academic Genealogy, Dolby,Noyce, Doering, Linstead, Kon, Thorpe... Pelope, Rocabonela, Elisaius...
Gordon W. Gribble's Academic Genealogy, Dolby,Noyce, Doering, Linstead, Kon, Thorpe...
Of interest to those who trace their lineage back to R.G. Bergman: his advisor was Jerome Abraham Berson (1924 -), who also received his Ph.D. under Doering at Columbia.
The gathering of this information was begun by Frank Switzer and further augmented by William von Eggers Doering (private communication).
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 Strychnine - Strychnine Medicine
American chemist Robert Burns Woodward (1917-1979; winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in chemistry) was successful in synthesizing (blending artificially) numerous complex organic compounds.
For example, in 1944 he worked with William von Eggers Doering to synthesize quinine, a malaria treatment.
Woodward discovered the structure of strychnine in 1949.
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 Phi Lambda Upsilon - Phillips Lecture Series - 1973 Lecturer William von Eggers Doering
Phi Lambda Upsilon - Phillips Lecture Series - 1973 Lecturer William von Eggers Doering
Born in Fort Worth, Texas on 22 June 1917, his parents were both musicians, and met while they were both studying music in Leipzig.
This page was last revised on September 16, 2002.
www.pitt.edu /~plu/PL/doering.htm   (409 words)

  
 Genealogy - Gordon W. Gribble Research Group
The following information was gathered by Frank Switzer and further augmented by William von Eggers Doering.
This lineage extends back to the following scientific pioneers: Adolph Von Baeyer (1835-1917), Friedrich August von Stradonitz Kekulé (1829-1896), Pierre Eugene Marcelin Berthelot, (1827-1907), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, (1778-1850), Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794).
**Professor Doering notes: "One of the almost insurmountable difficulties in tracing such a chemical genealogy with any kind of pedagogical integrity stems from the old European system of institutes: all graduates ostensibly obtained their degree from the Herr Director, who was often at best only slightly acquainted with the recipient!
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At Genetics Institute (1983-1987), Dr. Dougherty worked on the synthesis of modified nucleic acids, methodologies for DNA-based diagnostics, and nucleic acid-targeted drugs.
Dougherty received his Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry from Columbia University (Laboratory of Ronald Breslow) and an A.B. in Chemistry from Harvard University (Laboratory of William von Eggers Doering).
He has authored numerous scientific articles and obtained several patents.
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