Ernest Eliel
Ernest Eliel · Science & Medicine
Organic chemist known for the study of stereochemistry
1921, Cologne, Germany — 2008, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Cologne, Germany · United States (Notre Dame · University of North Carolina)
Ernest Eliel is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Organic chemist known for the study of stereochemistry
Eliel was an organic chemist who did more than anyone to establish stereochemistry — the study of the three-dimensional arrangement of atoms in molecules — as a rigorous discipline, above all through his classic textbooks on conformational analysis. He served as president of the American Chemical Society. Born into a Jewish family in Cologne, he fled Nazi Germany, escaping via France, Cuba and South America before reaching the United States.
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Organic chemist known for the study of stereochemistry
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