Gilbert Stork

Gilbert Stork

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Columbia University
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Ph.D 1945
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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.

Education

University of Florida, B.S. 1942; University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD 1945 with Samuel M. McElvain

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

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* [http://www.chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~common/stork/StorkE.html Chemical Society of Japan]
* [http://www.chemheritage.org/exhibits/ex-oral-detail.asp?ID=100&Numb=224 Chemical Heritage Foundation]
* [http://www.chem.yorku.ca/NAMED/PDF-FILES/Reactions-Q-T.pdf Named Organic Reactions]
* [http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/cenear/980112/top.html Chemical and Engineering News - Top 75 Chemists]
* [http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/aldrich/acta/al_acta_15_01.pdf Francis Hoffman, Gilbert Stork: A Celebration of 35 Years In Research & Teaching, Aldrichimica Acta, 1982, Vol. 15, p. 1-10.]


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