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Gilbert Stork

Gilbert Stork (born December 31 1921) is a Belgian-born U.S. organic chemist. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Columbia University. The Stork enamine synthesis is named in his honor.

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1 Education
2 Career
3 Elected to
4 Awarded Honorary Fellowship or Membership
5 Awards
6 References

Education

University of Florida, B.S. 1942; University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD 1945

Career

1946 Harvard University: Instructor; 1948 Assistant Professor
1953 Columbia University: Associate Professor; 1955 Professor; 1967-1993 Eugene Higgins Professor; *1993 Professor Emeritus

Elected to

U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1961
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1962
Foreign Member of the French Académie des Sciences, 1989
American Philosophical Society, 1995
The Royal Society, UK 1999

Awarded Honorary Fellowship or Membership

The Chemists' Club of New York, 1974
The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, 1973
The Chemical Society of Japan, 2002
The Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 1983
Chairman Organic Division of the American Chemical Society, 1966-1967

Awards

1957 Award in Pure Chemistry of the American Chemical Society
1959 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
1961 Baekeland Medal, North Jersey ACS
1962 Harrison Howe Award
1966 Edward Curtis Franklin Memorial Award, Stanford University
1967 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
1971 Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufactures Association Gold Medal
1973 Nebraska Award
1978 Roussel Prize, Paris
1980 Nichols Medal, New York ACS, Arthur C. Cope Award, ACS
1982 Edgar Fahs Smith Award, Philadelphia ACS
1982 Willard Gibbs Medal, Chicago ACS
1982 National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences
1983 National Medal of Science; Pauling Award
1985 Tetrahedron Prize
1986 Remsen Award, Maryland ACS; Cliff S. Hamilton Award,
1987 Monie A Ferst Award and Medal, Georgia Tech.
1991 Roger Adams Award
1992 George Kenner Award, Liverpool
1992 Robert Robinson Lectureship, University of Manchester
1992 Chemical Pioneer Award, American Institute of Chemists
1993 Robert A. Welch Award
1994 Allan R. Day Award, Philadelphia Organic Chemists Club
1995 Wolf Prize, Israel
2002 D. H. Barton Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry

Prof. Stork also holds honorary doctorates from Lawrence University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Paris, the University of Rochester, and Columbia University.

References

The Pfizer Lecture Series biography. Retrieved on March 20, 2006.
Chemical Society of Japan
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Named Organic Reactions
Chemical and Engineering News - Top 75 Chemists

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Wolf Prize in Chemistry Laureates

Carl Djerassi (1978) • Herman Mark (1979) • Henry Eyring (1980) • Joseph Chatt (1981) • John Charles Polanyi / George C. Pimentel (1982) • Herbert S. Gutowsky / Harden M. McConnell / John S. Waugh (1983) • Rudolph A. Marcus (1984) • Elias James Corey / Albert Eschenmoser (1986) • David C. Phillips / David Blow (1987) • Joshua Jortner / Raphael David Levine (1988) • Duilio Arigoni / Alan R. Battersby (1989) • Richard R. Ernst / Alexander Pines (1991) • John Pople (1992) • Ahmed Zewail (1993) • Richard Lerner / Peter Schultz (1994) • Gilbert Stork / Samuel J. Danishefsky (1995) • Gerhard Ertl / Gabor A. Somorjai (1998) • Raymond Lemieux (1999) • F. Albert Cotton (2000) • Henri B. Kagan / Ryoji Noyori / K. Barry Sharpless (2001) • Harry B. Gray (2004) • Richard Zare (2005) • Ada Yonath / George Feher (2006)

Categories: American chemists | Belgian chemists

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