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Robert Burns Woodward
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<p>Robert Burns Woodward <a href="/facts/Foreign_Member_of_the_Royal_Society/cWs8TdC5">ForMemRS</a> <a href="/facts/Honorary_Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh/6T9ftn3H">HonFRSE</a> (April 10, 1917 – July 8, 1979) was an American <a href="/facts/Organic_chemistry/djxhxaNg">organic chemist</a>. He is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century, having made many key contributions to the subject, especially in <a href="/facts/Organic_synthesis/WLFePEzH">the synthesis of complex natural products</a> and the determination of their <a href="/facts/Molecular_structure/N9ljSfFq">molecular structure</a>. He worked closely with <a href="/facts/Roald_Hoffmann/DHMcXIff">Roald Hoffmann</a> on theoretical studies of <a href="/facts/Chemical_reaction/GpqWlKrz">chemical reactions</a>. He was awarded the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry/8Nb8Ajjy">Nobel Prize in Chemistry</a> in 1965. </p>