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Woodward, Robert Burns
Woodward, Robert Burns
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Name
Woodward, Robert Burns
Date of birth
1917
Date of death
1979-07-08
Occupation
1965 Nobel Prize laureate for Chemistry for his contribution to organic synthesis; MIT Corporation Member 1966-1971.
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Group portrait in academic robes, 1961.
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Robert Burns Woodward, circa 1936
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Awards -- Nobel Prize
Class of 1936
