Ralph Raphael
Ralph Raphael · Science & Medicine
Organic chemist known for natural product synthesis using acetylenes
1921, Croydon, London, England — 1998, Cambridge, England
United Kingdom
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Raphael was a British organic chemist of Polish-Jewish descent, celebrated for pioneering the use of acetylene (alkyne) chemistry in the total synthesis of biologically active natural products. He headed organic chemistry at Cambridge and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His family were Polish Jews and his grandfather was strictly orthodox.
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Organic chemist known for natural product synthesis using acetylenes
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