Ronald Breslow
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Ronald Charles David Breslow (March 14, 1931 – October 25, 2017) was an American chemist from Rahway, New Jersey. He was University Professor at Columbia University, where he was based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the Departments of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology; he had also been on the faculty of its Department of Chemical Engineering. He had taught at Columbia since 1956 and was a former chair of the university's chemistry department.[2]
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Born | Ronald Charles D. Breslow (1931-03-14)March 14, 1931 |
Died | October 25, 2017(2017-10-25) (aged 86) New York City, US |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Awards | ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1966) NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (1989) National Medal of Science (1991) Priestley Medal (1999) Othmer Gold Medal (2006) Perkin Medal[1] (2010) AIC Gold Medal (2014) |
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Fields | Chemistry |
Institutions | Columbia University |
Thesis | Studies on magnamycin (1956) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Burns Woodward |
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