| Robert B. Woodward  AKA Robert Burns Woodward
Born: 10-Apr-1917
Birthplace: Boston, MA
Died: 8-Jul-1979
Location of death: Cambridge, MA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc. Father: Arthur Woodward
Mother: Margaret Burns
Wife: Irja Pullman (m. 1938, two daughters)
Daughter: Siiri Anne (b. 1939)
Daughter: Jean Kirsten (b. 1944)
Wife: Eudoxia Muller (m. 1946, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Crystal Elisabeth (b. 1947)
Son: Eric Richard Arthur (b. 1953)
University: BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1936)
University: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1937)
Scholar: Harvard University (1937-40)
Professor: Chemistry, Harvard University (1941-79)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1965
Davy Medal 1959
National Medal of Science 1964
Copley Medal 1978
National Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Royal Society
American Philosophical Society
Accademia dei Lincei
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