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Donald J. Cram

American chemist (1919-2001) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 82

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.

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2001Died17 June 20011993National Medal of ScienceAward1992NAS Award in Chemical SciencesAward1989Glenn T. Seaborg MedalAward1987Nobel Prize in ChemistryAward1985Roger Adams Award in Organic ChemistryAwardWillard Gibbs AwardAward1984Tolman AwardAward1975Centenary PrizeAward1974Arthur C. Cope AwardAward1965ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,Award1954Guggenheim FellowshipAward1919Born22 April 1919