Gilbert Stork
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| Born | December 31, 1921 Brussels, Belgium |
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| Nationality | Belgiam, American |
| Institutions | Harvard University Columbia University |
| Alma mater | University of Florida B.S. 1942 University of Wisconsin-Madison Ph.D 1945 |
| Notable awards | Wolf Prize 1996 |
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.
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[edit] Education
University of Florida, B.S. 1942; University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD 1945 with Samuel M. McElvain
[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 Académie des Sciences, 1989
- American Philosophical Society, 1995
- The Royal Society, UK 1999
[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-Madison, the University of Paris, the University of Rochester, 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
- Francis Hoffman, Gilbert Stork: A Celebration of 35 Years In Research & Teaching, Aldrichimica Acta, 1982, Vol. 15, p. 1-10.
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