Title:

Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry

Affiliation:

Columbia University

New York,New York 10027 USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2017

Award Discipline:

Chemistry

Award Year:

1982

Citation:

"For his contributions as one of the world's most innovative and productive organic synthetic chemists who has discovered a variety of important synthetic reactions which have made possible the synthesis of some of the most complicated and important biologically active compounds."

Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on May 24, 1983.