- Gilbert Stork
Infobox_Scientist
name = Gilbert Stork
image_width = 200px
caption = Gilbert Stork
birth_date = birth date and age|1921|12|31
birth_place =Brussels ,Belgium
residence =
nationality = Belgian, American
death_date =
death_place =
field =
work_institution =Harvard University Columbia University
alma_mater =University of Florida B.S. 1942University of Wisconsin-Madison Ph.D 1945
doctoral_advisor =
doctoral_students =
known_for =
prizes =Wolf Prize 1996
religion =
footnotes =Gilbert Stork (born
December 31 1921 ) is a Belgian-born U.S. organic chemist. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus atColumbia University . The Stork enamine synthesis is named in his honor.Education
University of Florida , B.S. 1942;University of Wisconsin-Madison , PhD 1945 withSamuel M. McElvain Career
* 1946
Harvard University : Instructor; 1948 Assistant Professor
* 1953 Columbia University: Associate Professor; 1955 Professor; 1967-1993 Eugene Higgins Professor; *1993 Professor EmeritusElected 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 1999Awarded Honorary Fellowship or Membership
* The Chemists' Club of New York, 1974
* The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, 1973
* The Chemical Society of Japan, 2002
* TheRoyal Society of Chemistry , UK, 1983
* Chairman Organic Division of the American Chemical Society, 1966-1967Awards
* 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
* 1982National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences
* 1983National Medal of Science ;Pauling Award
* 1985Tetrahedron 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
* 1993Robert A. Welch Award
* 1994 Allan R. Day Award, Philadelphia Organic Chemists Club
* 1995Wolf Prize , Israel
* 2002D. H. Barton Medal , Royal Society of ChemistryProf. Stork also holds
honorary doctorates fromLawrence University , theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison , theUniversity of Paris , theUniversity of Rochester , andColumbia University .References
*
* [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.]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.