From: Dr. Ulrich Jordis (ujordis$##$pop.tuwien.ac.at)
Date: Sun Oct 10 1999 - 18:53:26 EDT
How about I. UGI?
He has created the multi component reactions ... these are used practically
in every combinatorial library!!
At 09:38 09.10.1999 +0800, you wrote:
>Oh, how about R. Breslow from Columbia Univ.
>He is an organic chemist.
>He did well in many aspects in organic chemistry, such as aromaticity and
>antiaromaticity, biomimics.
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>John Kerkines wrote:
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>> Forthcoming Tuesday is Nobel Prize day for Chemistry.
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>> By observing the trends in the way the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, one would
>> see that Analytical and Organic Chemistry haven't seen a Nobel Prize for
>> some years.
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>> The last Nobel Prize in "Analytical" Chemistry was given in 1991 to
>> Richard Ernst for high resolution NMR. In the 80's three Nobels were given
>> for analytical-crystallographic-related work (1982, Sir A. Klug, 1985
>> Hauptman and Karle, 1988 Deisenhofer, Huber and Michel).
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>> If we do not count the 1996 prize for fullerenes as "organic" chemistry,
>> George Olah's 1994 prize for carbocations is the last Nobel Prize given to
>> an Organic Chemist. Organic-related Nobels in the past two decades include
>> 1984 Merrifield, 1987 Cram, Lehn and Pedersen and 1990 Corey.
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>> Since I am neither an organic, nor an analytical chemist, I am not able to
>> propose names of scientists in these fields who may have a chance in
>> winning a Nobel Prize. The past experience has shown that the last years
>> almost all of the laureates come from the USA, and at least one of them is
>> at a high-level University (MIT, Cornell, Caltech, Stanford, Harvard to
>> name a few). So, I would search for potential candidates in Analytical or
>> Organic Chemistry in these Universities.
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>> There is always a chance for a "combination of fields" Nobel Prize. For
>> example A.Bax who is first in the list of citations is doing NMR in bio
>> systems (but probably he is too young for a Nobel Prize?). Another example
>> would be Dick Zare in the field of spectroscopy (he is in Stanford), and
>> S. Lippard in bioinorganic (he is in MIT).
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>> Another thing, is the number or papers or citations. There are 5 Nobel
>> laureates among the first 30 cited chemists. Possibly there would be
>> another one soon. Almost 10 of the first 30 are theoreticians, so they are
>> eliminated since it is rare that the same field gets the Nobel Prize two
>> consecutive years. I checked out some of the people that remain. Some
>> names I found interesting were D. Seebach from ETH and K.C. Nicolaou from
>> Scripps in Organic, and A. Bard in Analytical. There are more of them of
>> course.
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>> Since most of you are more aware than me with what's happening in organic
>> chemistry, if this year would be for organic chemistry, who would you
>> propose and why?
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>> Regards,
>> John Kerkines
>> Ph.D. Student
>> University of Athens, Greece
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