WOODWARD, ROBERT BURNS

1917–80, American chemist and educator, b. Boston, grad. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B., 1936; Ph.D., 1937). He taught at Harvard from 1938, becoming Donner professor of science there in 1960. He was one of the first to determine the structure of such organic chemical compounds as penicillin (1945), strychnine (1947), terramycin (1952), and aureomycin (1952). Woodward is best known for his chemical synthesis of the organic substances quinine (1944), patulin (1950), cholesterol (1951), cortisone (1951), strychnine, lysergic acid, lanosterol (1954), reserpine (1956), chlorophyll (1960), and tetracycline (1962). For this work in organic synthesis he was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Royal Bob: The Life of Robert G. Ingersoll
Book by C. H. Cramer; Bobbs-Merrill, 1952
Subjects: Ingersoll, Robert Green--1833-1899
...suggested Ingersolls epitaph. It was: "Robert burns." 15 In 1895, in a short speech...hand I took his book, which was "Robert Burns." In a few days I had a copy; and...and by Ayr in Scotland where Robert Burns was born. He was unimpressed by...
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Robert Lowery, Radical and Chartist
Book by Brian Harrison, Patricia Hollis, Robert Lowery; Europa Publications, 1979
Subjects: Chartism--History, Lowery, Robert--1809-1863, Tailors--Great Britain--Biography, Working Class--Great Britain--Biography
...to him in the past, the Quebec nuns, Robert Monteith and Dr. Pearson pp. 56...recalled. But Lowerys favourite was Burns, to whom he returns again and again in...Finer, Edwin Chadwick 1952 ; D. Roberts, Victorian Origins of the British Welfare...
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The Robert Frost Encyclopedia
Book by Nancy Lewis Juten, John Zubizarreta; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Frost, Robert--1874-1963--Encyclopedias, Poets, American--20th Century--Biography--Encyclopedias
...first in Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant's Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence (1960...Vermont Legislature designates Ripton Robert Frost Mountain, 1955, names Frost...settling on England as the place where Robert, in the fall of 1912, would stake all...
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Robert Adam and His Circle, in Edinburgh & Rome
Book by John Fleming; Harvard University Press, 1962
Subjects: Adam, Robert--1728-1792, Adams Family
...Phylosophical Experiments amongst them; and finally to Dr Woodward to see his collection of curiosities, mainly natural, he remarked...Vitruvius is already undertaken by the author of Plinys Gardens Robert Castell presumably and is pretty far advanced so as Proposals...
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Buncombe Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Rice Reynolds
Book by Julian M. Pleasants; University of North Carolina Press, 2000
Subjects: Legislators--United States--Biography, North Carolina--Politics And Government--1865-1950, Reynolds, Robert Rice--1884-1963, United States--Congress--Senate--Biography, United States--Politics And Government--1933-1945
...THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ROBERT RICE REYNOLDS Julian M...M. Pleasants and Augustus M. Burns, Frank Porter Graham and the...deceased colleague Augustus M. Burns. He graciously read large portions...Finally, my eternal gratitude to Roberta Peacock, office manager of the...
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journal articles on: Woodward Robert Burns  - 92 results

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C. Vann Woodward: November 13, 1908-December 17, 1999
Journal article by J. Mills Iii Thornton; Civil War History, Vol. 46, 2000
Subjects: African American authors--Biography, Authors, American--Biography, Historians--Biography, Woodward, C. Vann--Biography
...Amid Historys vice and velleity, that poor book burns Like fox-fire in the black swamp of the worlds error...of history at the University of Michigan and a former student of C. Vann Woodward.
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Gender and Origins of the New South
Journal article by Glenda E. Gilmore; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 67, 2001
Subjects: Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Historians--Criticism and interpretation, History--Political aspects, Literature, Politics, Race relations, Sex role--Political aspects, Sex roles--Political aspects, Southern States--History, United States history, Woodward, C. Vann--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Criticism and interpretation
...31-42; Jacqueline Anne Rouse, Lugenia Burns Hope: Black Southern Reformer (Athens...South (New York, 1941). (13) C. Vann Woodward, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel (New York...Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and...
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Esoteric Buddhism in Southeast Asia in the Light of Recent Scholarship
Journal article by Hiram Woodward; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 35, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Indian esoteric Buddhism: A social history of the Tantric movement (Book)--Book reviews
...2002): 112-16. (49) Hiram W. Woodward, Jr., The life of the Buddha...Katherine Anne Harper and Robert L. Brown (Albany: State University...as a mandala, in Gomez and Woodward ed., Barabudur, pp. 140-2...this inscription, see Hiram Woodward, Practice and belief in ancient...
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Actor-System Dynamics Theory and Its Application to the Analysis of Modern Capitalism *
Journal article by Tom R. Burns, Thomas Baumgartner, Philippe Deville; Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 27, 2002
Subjects: Capitalism--Analysis, Social systems--Models
...DeVille, Philippe and Tom R. Burns 1976 "Institutional Responses...Hollingsworth, Joseph Rogers and Robert Boyer 1997 Contemporary...Capitalism. London: Allen Unwin. Woodward, Alison, Jerry Ellig. and Tom R. Burns 1994 Municipal Entrepreneurship...
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Waging Cold War in a Model City: The Investigation of "Subversive" Influences in the 1967 Detroit Riot
Journal article by Andrea A. Burns; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 30, 2004
Subjects: Goodman, John, Johnson, Lyndon B., Riots--Analysis, Romney, George W.
...Detroit Riot. by Andrea A. Burns One year after the Detroit...black ghetto, and spread to Woodward Avenue, Detroits main thoroughfare...riots. For example, sociologist Robert Mendelsohn argued in 1971 that...July 28, 1967, 1B. Andrea A. Burns is a Ph.D. candidate in the...
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magazine articles on: Woodward Robert Burns  - 18 results

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Professional I
Magazine article; Corrections Today, Vol. 70, June 2008
Subjects: Corrections--Membership, Professional associations--Membership, Trade and professional associations--Membership
...Zelda Bettman, Robert Burns, Laura Goad. Cindy Greer...Jones, Lucille E. Odom, Robert Scarborough, David Sleeth...Jeff Winsco, Michael Woodward MISSISSIPPI--Ron King...Aason, Naomi Brown, Paula Burns, Robinson Cadet, Scott...Lacey, Belinda McEachern, Robert G. Miller, Frederick...
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Thank You Federal Reserve
Magazine article by Bruce Bartlett; The American Enterprise, Vol. 11, March 2000
Subjects: Clinton, Bill--Economic policy, Greenspan, Alan--Economic policy, Inflation (Finance)--Management, Interest rates--Effect of inflation on, Monetary policy--United States, United States economic conditions--Management, United States. Federal Reserve Board--Economic policy
...money and low interest rates, Robert Rubin, later to be Treasury...frustrated by Greenspan, as Bob Woodward documents in The Agenda, Clinton...policies they want. Economist Robert Shapiro, now Under Secretary...of Miller. Certainly Arthur Burns, the Fed chairman most responsible...
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Crash Cow
Magazine article by David Segal; Washington Monthly, Vol. 25, December 1993
Subjects: Automobile insurance--Innovations, No-fault automobile insurance--Innovations
...services of one of Californias most accomplished ballot brawlers, Woodward and McDowell. A public relations campaign costing upwards of...Prop 103 fight will be reprised. "I can see the ad now," says Robert Hunter, the Texas insurance commissioner. "The trial lawyers...
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Libby Was Not Alone
Magazine article; The Progressive, Vol. 69, December 2005
Subjects: Disclosure of information--Cases, Libby, Lewis--Cases, Miller, Judith--Cases, Rove, Karl--Cases, United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Cases, United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Officials and employees, Wilson, Valerie Plame--Cases
...conversation "with columnist Robert Novak in which Wilsons...should bandage those burns on his arms. The indictment...Iraq, according to Bob Woodwards Plan of Attack. And in...for a victory supper, Woodward notes. Adelman, who had...he gave, according to Woodward, a one-word answer...
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Welcome New Members
Magazine article; Corrections Today, Vol. 66, December 2004
...Cathy M. Wise, Betty Woodward, Steve Woodward, Ronnie Youngblood LOUISIANA -- Nannette...BeLinda P. Watson MASSACHUSETTS -- Robert Balboni, Leisa Crawley, Joseph Critelli...Brousseau, Eugene H. Burnell Jr., Linda Burns, David L. Clark, Mary Collier, Ken Conyers...
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newspaper articles on: Woodward Robert Burns  - 48 results

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Historical, Histrionic Essays on TV Series
Newspaper article by Ken Burns; The Washington Times, July 20, 1996
Subjects: Burns, Ken
...as the books editor, Robert Brent Toplin, puts it, is that "an analysis of Burns use of the visual media...emollient essay by C. Vann Woodward, the duke of Southern...role as adviser to Mr. Burns and liaison to a flock...skepticism initially, Mr. Woodward asserts that as time...
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Phoenix Architect Gets an Honorary Degree; COVENTRY University Results 2005
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), November 16, 2005
Subjects: Craft, Robert
...Communication, Culture and Media: Mathew Burns, Sophia Weston. Diploma in Transport and...Baljinder Sing Dhami, Ashley James Duncan, Robert Ellis, Sheleen Estridge, Amrik Singh Fashion...Richards, Paul Stephen Roughan, James Robert Russell, Karl Sanders, Robert Stephan...
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Answers to Bookworm's Christmas Quiz
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 14, 2005
...AUTOBIOGRAPHIES Graham Norton. Clive Woodward. 3. Joanna Lumley. 4Greg Dyke. 5...Christopher Marlowe. 4. Hugh Lofting. 5. Robert Louis Stevenson. 6. A. J. Cronin...A Midsummer Night"s Dream. 5. Robert Burns. 6.Ian McEwan, Frederick Forsyth...
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Wicker Man Will Blaze a Trail in the West End; CULT STATUS: Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle in the Wicker Man, Now Set to Become a Musical
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 9, 2008
Subjects: The Wicker Man (Motion picture)
...the West of Scotland in1971. Edward Woodward played an uptight police sergeant...late Paul Giovanni, whoborrowed from Robert Burns, folk songs and even nursery rhymes...Music andDrama. Mackie also sang Burns The Highland Widows Lament over the...
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Intellectuals vs. Creators; Profiling Those Who Forge New Visions
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 26, 2006
...considers the creative component of such scientific explorers as physicist Michael Faraday or organic chemist Robert Burns Woodward. Speaking of the amount of imagination needed, he quotes Albert Einstein, "A scientist tells himself a story and...
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encyclopedia articles on: Woodward Robert Burns  - 2 results

 
 
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Woodward, Robert Burns
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
WOODWARD, ROBERT BURNS 1917 80, American chemist and educator, b. Boston, grad. Massachusetts...1945), strychnine (1947), terramycin (1952), and aureomycin (1952). Woodward is best known for his chemical synthesis of the organic substances quinine...
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Nobel Prizes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Konrad E. Bloch Feodor Lynen Jean-Paul Sartre 1965 United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund Robert Burns Woodward Richard Phillips Feynman Shinichiro Tomonaga Julian Seymour Schwinger Francois Jacob Andre Lwoff Jacques Monod...


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