Roger Adams
1889
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1971
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Harvard University, Radcliffe College
occupation: chemist, university teacher
award received: National Medal of Science, Elliott Cresson Medal, Willard Gibbs Award, Perkin Medal, August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal, Priestley Medal, Franklin Medal, Davy Medal, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Charles Lathrop Parsons Award, American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal, William H. Nichols Medal, Remsen Award
Roger Adams (January 2, 1889 – July 6, 1971) was an American organic chemist who developed the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and helped determine the composition of natural substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids. He isolated and identified CBD in 1940. As head of the Chemistry department at the University of Illinois from 1926 to 1954, he influenced graduate education in America, taught over 250 Ph.D. students and postgraduate students, and served in military science during World War I and World War II. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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