Robert Woodward
Robert Burns Woodward (10 April 1917 - 8 Julai 1979) ialah ahli kimia organik Amerika. Beliau dianggap oleh ramai ahli kimia organik terkemuka abad kedua puluh,[1] telah membuat banyak sumbangan utama kepada subjek, terutama dalam sintesis produk semula jadi kompleks dan penentuan struktur molekul mereka. Beliau juga bekerja rapat dengan Roald Hoffmann mengenai kajian teori mengenai tindak balas kimia. Beliau dianugerahkan Hadiah Nobel dalam Kimia pada tahun 1965.
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| Kelahiran | Robert Burns Woodward 10 April 1917 |
| Meninggal dunia | 8 Julai 1979 (umur 62) Cambridge, Massachusetts, A.S. |
| Kerakyatan | Amerika Syarikat |
| Pusat pendidikan | MIT (S.B., Ph.D.) |
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| Bidang | Kimia organik |
| Institusi | Universiti Harvard |
| Penasihat kedoktoran | James Flack Norris Avery Adrian Morton |
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Rujukan sunting
- ^ Elkan Blout (2001). "Robert Burns Woodward". Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. 80. | url = http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/woodward-robert-b.pdf
Bibliografi sunting
- Robert Burns Woodward: Architect and Artist in the World of Molecules; Otto Theodor Benfey, Peter J. T. Morris, Chemical Heritage Foundation, April 2001.
- 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); Mary E. Bowden; Chemical Heritage Foundation, March 1992
- Woodward R. B.; Sondheimer F.; Taub D. (1951). "The Total Synthesis of Cortisone". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 73 (8): 4057–4057. doi:10.1021/ja01152a551.
- George B. Kauffman (2004). "Organic Synthesizer par excellence – On the 25th Anniversary of His Death". Chem. Educator. 9: 1–5.
- Robert Burns Woodward Diarkibkan 2008-09-07 di Wayback Machine
- Video podcast of Robert Burns Woodward talking about cephalosporin
- Robert Burns Woodward: Three Score Years and Then? David Dolphin, Aldrichimica Acta, 1977, 10(1), 3-9.
- Robert Burns Woodward Patents Woefully incomplete list; see Discussion pages.
Pautan luar sunting
- digital.sciencehistory.org (nota kuliah yang didigit pada Seminar Malam Petang Robert Burns Woodward oleh Robert E. Kohler)