Gilbert Stork

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Gilbert Stork (born December 31, 1921) is a Belgian-born U.S. organic chemist. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Columbia University. The Stork enamine synthesis is named in his honor.

Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 Elected to 4 Awarded Honorary Fellowship or Membership 5 Awards 6 References

[edit] Education

University of Florida, B.S. 1942; University of Wisconsin, PhD 1945

[edit] Career

• 1946 Harvard University: Instructor; 1948 Assistant Professor
• 1953 Columbia University: Associate Professor; 1955 Professor; 1967-1993 Eugene Higgins Professor; *1993 Professor Emeritus

[edit] Elected to

• U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1961
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1962
• Foreign Member of the French AcadŽmie des Sciences, 1989
• American Philosophical Society, 1995

[edit] Awarded Honorary Fellowship or Membership

• The Chemists' Club of New York, 1974
• The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, 1973
• The Chemical Society of Japan, 2002

• The Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 1983
• Chairman Organic Division of the American Chemical Society, 1966-1967

[edit] Awards

• 1957 Award in Pure Chemistry of the American Chemical Society
• 1959 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
• 1961 Baekeland Medal, North Jersey ACS
• 1962 Harrison Howe Award
• 1966 Edward Curtis Franklin Memorial Award, Stanford University
• 1967 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
• 1971 Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufactures Association Gold Medal
• 1973 Nebraska Award
• 1978 Roussel Prize, Paris
• 1980 Nichols Medal, New York ACS, Arthur C. Cope Award, ACS
• 1982 Edgar Fahs Smith Award, Philadelphia ACS
• 1982 Willard Gibbs Medal, Chicago ACS
• 1982 National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences
• 1983 National Medal of Science; Pauling Award
• 1985 Tetrahedron Prize
• 1986 Remsen Award, Maryland ACS; Cliff S. Hamilton Award,
• 1987 Monie A Ferst Award and Medal, Georgia Tech.
• 1991 Roger Adams Award
• 1992 George Kenner Award, Liverpool
• 1992 Robert Robinson Lectureship, University of Manchester
• 1992 Chemical Pioneer Award, American Institute of Chemists
• 1993 Robert A. Welch Award
• 1994 Allan R. Day Award, Philadelphia Organic Chemists Club
• 1995 Wolf Prize, Israel
• 2002 D. H. Barton Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry

Prof. Stork also holds honorary doctorates from Lawrence University, the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University.

[edit] References

• The Pfizer Lecture Series biography. Retrieved on March 20, 2006.
• Chemical Society of Japan
• Chemical Heritage Foundation
• Named Organic Reactions
• Chemical and Engineering News - Top 75 Chemists