# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gilbert-stork
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:39:01.887Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/gilbert-stork"
name: "Gilbert Stork"
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description: "Gilbert Stork was a Belgian-American organic chemist. For a quarter of a century he was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Columbia University. He is known for making significant contributions to the total synthesis of natural products, including a lifelong fascination with the synthesis of quinine. In so doing he also made a number of contributions to mechanistic understanding of reactions, and performed pioneering work on enamine chemistry, leading to development of the Stork enamine alkylation.\nIt is believed he was responsible for the first planned stereocontrolled synthesis as well as the first natural product to be synthesised with high stereoselectivity."
tagline: "Belgian American chemist (1921-2017)"
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birthDate: "1921-12-31"
deathDate: "2017-10-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump