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Robert Burns Woodward.
In: Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, 2023, S. 3
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Organic Chemist. Robert Burns Woodward was the only child born to Margaret Burns and Arthur Chester Woodward. His father died in October of 1918 at the age of thirty-three. His mother was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and claimed descent from the poet Robert Burns. Young Woodward grew up in Quincy, near Boston, and attended its public schools. Chemistry attracted him from an early age, although he was vague on what started the interest. He indulged in this hobby in a home laboratory, fascinated from the start by the beauty of molecular structures. A gifted child, Woodward skipped grades three times, which enabled him to enroll at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1933 at the age of sixteen. Possessing a staggering amount of chemical knowledge, he earned a Ph.D. from MIT within four years.
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Robert Burns Woodward.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Costa, Albert B. |
Zeitschrift: | Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, 2023, S. 3 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2023 |
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