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Donald James Cram was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." They were the founders of the field of host–guest chemistry.
BornApril 22, 1919, Chester, Vermont
DiedJune 17, 2001 (aged 82), Palm Desert, California
NationalityAmerican
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUCLA, Merck & Co, MIT
Alma materRollins College (B.S.), University of Nebraska (M.S.), Harvard University (Ph.D.)
ThesesAmino ketones, mechanism studies of the reactions of heterocyclic secondary amines with -bromo -unsaturated ketones. (1942), Syntheses and reactions of 2-(ketoalkyl)-3-hydroxy-1, 4-naphthoquinones (1947)
Doctoral studentsM. Frederick Hawthorne, Norman L. Allinger
Known forCram's rule, Host–guest chemistry, phenonium ions, paracyclophanes
Notable awardsNobel Prize in Chemistry (1987), Glenn T. Seaborg Medal (1989), National Medal of Science (1993), Guggenheim fellowship (1955)

About Donald J. Cram

Chemist Donald J. Cram was born on April 22, 1919 in Vermont, United States (He dies at the age of 82, on June 17, 2001).

American chemist and one of the inventors of the subject of host-guest chemistry, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987. He's also the author of eight organic chemistry books.

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Donald J. Cram before becoming famous

Donald J. Cram was born in the Zodiac sign Taurus (The Bull), and 1919 is also the year of Goat (羊) in the Chinese Zodiac.

After his father died, he had to support his family of five, and by the time he was eighteen, he had worked over a dozen jobs.

Achievement of Donald J. Cram

Cram's rule is a model for forecasting the outcome of nucleophilic attack on carbonyl compounds that is named after him.

Donald J. Cram's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

His father came from Scotland, while his mother came from Germany.

Donald J. Cram Collabed with

Two years after Chemist Jerome Karle, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Donald J. Cram Income & Net worth

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