Louis Fieser
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Louis Frederick Fieser was an American organic chemist, professor, and in 1968, professor emeritus at Harvard University.
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Louis Frederick Fieser was an American organic chemist, professor, and in 1968, professor emeritus at Harvard University. His award-winning research included work on blood-clotting agents including the first synthesis of vitamin K, synthesis and screening of quinones as antimalarial drugs, work with steroids leading to the synthesis of cortisone, and study of the nature of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. He also invented militarily effective napalm while at Harvard in 1942.
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