Dale L. Boger

Dale Lester Boger
Born (1953-08-22) August 22, 1953
Hutchinson, Kansas
Institutions The Scripps Research Institute
Alma mater University of Kansas, Harvard University
Doctoral advisor E. J. Corey

Dale Lester Boger is an American medicinal and organic chemist and chair of the Department of Chemistry[1] at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA.

Dale Boger was born on August 22, 1953, in Hutchinson, Kansas. He studied chemistry at the University of Kansas (B.S., 1975), Ph.D. 1980, Harvard University, under Professor E. J. Corey. Following graduate school, he joined the faculty at the University of Kansas where he became assistant/associate professor of medicinal chemistry (1979–1985).

In 1985, he started at Purdue University, where he was professor of chemistry (1985–1991). Currently, in addition to chairing the Department of Chemistry, he is Richard and Alice Cramer Professor of Chemistry and member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology[2] at The Scripps Research Institute.

Boger is active in the field of organic chemistry with research interests including natural product synthesis, synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry, and combinatorial chemistry. He is also the author of a popular book on synthetic organic chemistry: Modern Organic Synthesis Lecture Notes (TSRI Press, 1999).

Awards

Dale Boger has received numerous awards and honors including:

References

  1. ↑ http://www.scripps.edu/research/chem/index.html
  2. ↑ http://www.scripps.edu/research/skaggs/faculty.html

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