Title:

Professor of Chemistry

Affiliation:

Harvard University

Cambridge,Massachusetts  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

1979

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1964

Citation:

"For an imaginative new approach to the synthesis of complex organic molecules and, especially, for [his] brilliant syntheses of strychnine, reserphine, lysergic acid, and chlorophyll."

Presented by President Johnson at a White House Ceremony in the East Room on February 8, 1965.

Nobel Laureate:

Chemistry, 1965