Charles J. Pedersen
Charles John Pedersen was an American organic chemist best known for discovering crown ethers and describing methods of synthesizing them during his entire 42-year career as a chemist for DuPont at DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware, and at DuPont's Jackson Laboratory in Deepwater, New Jersey. Often associated with Reed McNeil Izatt, Pedersen also shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 with Donald J. Cram and Jean-Marie Lehn.
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- Born in
- Busan
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of DaytonSaint Joseph College, Yokohama
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Chemistry🏆 Lavoisier Medal for Lifetime Technical Achievement
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1904
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