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Born #OTD 1917: Robert Burns Woodward, the greatest organic chemist of the 20th century and the only chemist to whom the word "certified genius" can apply. Woodward's feat in complex organic synthesis and his sheer stamina baffled his contemporaries.pic.twitter.com/ZeG80URCq2
A child prodigy, he graduated with both B.S. and PhD degrees from MIT when he was 20. In his late 20s Harvard made him full professor with almost no responsibility other than research. He won a Nobel Prize and would have won at least one more had he not died the year before.pic.twitter.com/xRlp6uW2te
Woodward received more Nobel Prize nominations than any scientist in any field - an astonishing 111, before he won in 1965. He narrowly missed the 1973 prize for ferrocene and would have certainly shared the 1981 prize had he lived. http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2015/09/the-92-nobel-prize-nominations-of.html …
I confess he was nearly as good as me. Nearly.
He probably died from all those bottles of Scotch & smoking!
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