Donald J. Cram

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1919 – 2001

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Who was Donald J. Cram?

Donald James Cram was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." They were the founders of the field of host-guest chemistry.

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Born
Apr 22, 1919
Chester
Also known as
  • Donald James Cram
Spouses
Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • University of Nebraska–Lincoln
  • Rollins College
  • PhD, Harvard University
    Organic chemistry
    ( - 1947)
Lived in
  • Palm Desert
    ( - 2001/06/17)
Died
Jun 17, 2001
Palm Desert

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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