Background
Woodward, Robert Burns was born on April 10, 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Arthur Chester and Margaret (Burns) Woodward.
Woodward, Robert Burns was born on April 10, 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Arthur Chester and Margaret (Burns) Woodward.
Bachelor of Science, Mass Institute Technology, 1936, Doctor of Philosophy, 1937. Doctor of Science (honorary), Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1945, Victoria University, Manchester, England, 1954, Bucknell University, 1955, U. North.B. (Canada), 1956, Yale, 1956, Harvard, 1957, University of Southern California, 1959, University of Chicago, 1961, New England College Pharmacy, 1961, Colby College, 1963, U. Cambridge (England), 1964, Brandeis University, 1965, Stonehill College, 1966, U. Sheffield (England), 1966. Israel Institute Technology (Haifa), 1966, Polytechnic Institute Brooklyn, 1967, U. Western Ontario (Canada), 1968, Columbia, 1969, U. Louvain (Belgium), 1970, U. Pierre et Marie Curie de Paris, 1975, U. Saint Andrews (Scotland), 1976, U. London, 1976.
Doctor of Laws, University Glasgow, 1966.
Doctor Technology wissenschaftliche, Eidg. Technology Hochschule, Switzerland, 1967.
Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard, 1946.
Post doctoral fellow Harvard, 1937-1938, member society fellows, 1938-1940, from instructor to professor, 1941-1953, Morris Loeb professor of chemistry, 1953-1960, Donner professor science, 1960-1979. Director Woodward Research Institute, Basel, Switzerland, 1963-1979. Consultant chemical manufacturers, also Polaroid Corporation, 1942-1979, Chas.
Pfizer & Company, Incorporated., 1951-1970, also director Honorary lecturer many organizations
American Swiss Foundation lecturer, 1948. Harrison Howe lecturer, 1950.
Centenary lecturer Chemical Society London, 1951. Stieglitz lecturer, 1952.
Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial lecturer, 1959.
Harvard lecturer at Yale, 1959. Morrell lecturer Cambridge University, 1959, Alexander Todd professor Chemistry Christ’s College, also fellow, 1973-1974. Lecturer Leermakers Symposium, Wesleyan University, 1972.
Synthesized quinine, 1944, patulin, 1950, cholesterol, 1951, cortisone, 1951, strychnine, 1954, lysergic acid, 1954, lanosterol, 1954, reserpine, 1956.
Deduced structure penicillin, 1945, strychnine, 1947, terramycin and aureomycin, 1952, ferrocene, 1952, cevine, 1954, magnamycin, 1956, oleandomycin, 1960, synthesized chlorophyll, 1960, tetracycline, 1962, Colchicine, 1963, cephalosporin C, 1965, vitamin B12, 1972, Prostaglandin F2a, 1973, streptonigrin, 1963, tetrodotoxin, 1964.
Robert Burns Woodward has been listed as a noteworthy educator. by Marquis Who's Who.
Member corporation Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1966-1971. Fellow The Chemical Society (honorary), Weizmann Institute Science (honorary), Indian National Science Academy (foreign) Indian Chemical Society (honorary), American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member German (honorary), Belgian (honorary), Swiss chemical societies, Royal Society (foreign), Royal Irish Academy (honorary), Austrian Academy Sciences (correspondent), Yugoslav Academy Sciences and Arts (correspondent), American Philosophical Society, National Academy Sciences, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher (Leopoldina), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (foreign.
Member), Pharm, Society Japan (honorary), Pharmaceutical Society Great Britain (honorary), Harvey Society New York (honorary), Royal Institution Great Britain (honorary), New York Academy Sciences (honorary life), Academy Sciences Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (foreign).
Married Irja Pullman, JuLy 30, 1938. Married second, Eudoxia M. M. Muller, September 14, 1946. Children: Siiri Anne, Jean Kirsten.
