The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Robert B. Woodward
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