Gilbert Stork
Gilbert Stork · Science & Medicine
Organic chemist renowned for advances in the total synthesis of complex molecules
1921, Brussels, Belgium — 2017, United States
Belgium · France · United States
Gilbert Stork is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Organic chemist renowned for advances in the total synthesis of complex molecules
Stork, born in Brussels to a family of Jewish origin who fled to the United States in 1939, became one of the twentieth century's masters of organic synthesis. At Harvard and then Columbia he devised the Stork enamine alkylation and pioneering total syntheses of complex natural products such as quinine.
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Organic chemist renowned for advances in the total synthesis of complex molecules
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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