Ernest Ludwig Eliel (December 28, 1921 – September 18, 2008) was a chemist born in Cologne, Germany. Among his awards were the Priestley Medal in 1996 [1][2] and the NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society in 1997.
He moved to the USA in 1946. He taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1948. In 1972 he moved to be the W.R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Eliel was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980.[3] He served as president of the American Chemical Society in 1992. He died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.[2]
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