Career
When the Nazis came to power he left Germany and moved to Scotland, then Canada, then Cuba. He received his Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Havana in 1946. He moved to the United States of America in 1946 and taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1948.
In 1972 he moved to be the West.R. Kenan, Junior.
Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as president of the American Chemical Society in 1992.
He died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His research focussed on the stereochemistry and conformational analysis of flexible organic molecules, including derivatives of cyclohexane and saturated heterocyclic rings, using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (Nuclear magnetic resonance) extensively.
His 1962 textbook Stereochemistry of Carbon Compounds influenced generations of organic chemists.