Donald J. Cram

Details

Instance of

human

Born

22 April 1919

Died

17 June 2001

Place of birth

Chester

Place of death

Palm Desert

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Donald

Family name

Cram

Field of work

chemistry

Occupation

chemist, university teacher

Citizenship

United States

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Willard Gibbs Award, ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,, National Medal of Science, NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, Tolman Award, Arthur C. Cope Award, Centenary Prize, Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry

cause of death

cancer

doctoral advisor

Louis Fieser

doctoral student

M. Frederick Hawthorne, Fred Wudl

educated at

Rollins College, Harvard University, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

employer

University of California, Los Angeles

influenced by

Paul Doughty Bartlett, Robert Burns Woodward

languages spoken, written or signed

English

manner of death

natural causes

member of

National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

name in native language

Donald J. Cram

oral history at

UCLA Center for Oral History Research

residence

California

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