Donald J. Cram Ph.D.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987
Co-Nobelists: Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
The President's National Medal of Science - Chemistry 1993

Organic Chemist. Development, use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity. Taught himself solid geometry from book, winning scholarship. High emotional intelligence.

When word "research" entered my vocabulary, it had magic ring, suggesting search for new phenomena. Chemical research became my god, and conducting it, my act of prayer.

Publications

Donald J. Cram Papers,1937-2002

Journal Articles, NCBI/Pubmed Possibly more than one person with same name.

Drawing by Ami Mowris

Name: Donald James Cram
Birth: 22 April 1919, Chester, VT, USA
Death: 17 June, 2001, Palm Desert, CA, USA
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Award: "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity"
Subject: organic chemistry
Portion of cash: 1/3
Biography
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M.S.: M.S. 1942, Mentor Dr. Norman Cromwell, University of Nebraska
Ph.D.: Ph.D. 1947, Mentor Professor L.F. Fieser, Harvard University. National Research Council Fellowship. Ph.D.in 18 months.

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