Robert Burns Woodward

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United States chemist honored for synthesizing complex organic compounds (1917-1979)

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By 1960, when most of the stereochemistry of chlorophyll a was known, Robert Burns Woodward published a total synthesis of the molecule. Source: Internet

In 1950, Harvard University professor Robert Burns Woodward determined the chemical structure of the related substance, oxytetracycline (Terramycin); the patent protection for its fermentation and production was also first issued in 1950. Source: Internet

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