Subject: Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979 - Science History Institute Digital Collections Search Results

Oral history interview with Albert Eschenmoser

1985-Oct-07

Albert Eschenmoser begins the interview with a discussion of his early life and education. Born in Switzerland, he attended school in the canton of Uri. At the age of sixteen, he decided that he wanted to become a…

Interviewee Eschenmoser, Albert
Interviewer Koeppel, Tonja A.
Subject Eschenmoser, Albert, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Chemistry, Organic, Ruzicka, Leopold, 1887-1976, Sesquiterpenes, Colchicine, Vitamin B12, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Vitamin B12--Synthesis

7 items

Oral histories

Oral history interview with Roald Hoffmann

2014-Oct-16 (First interview)
2014-Oct-17 (Second interview)
2015-Mar-21 (Third interview)

Roald Hoffmann was born Roald Safran in Złoczów, Poland, in 1937. When the Nazi Wehrmacht reached Złoczów in 1941, Roald’s family went into hiding, then into a labor camp. His father bribed the guards to allow Roald,…

Interviewee Hoffmann, Roald
Interviewer Caruso, David J., Reinhardt, Carsten
Subject Hoffmann, Roald, Hückel molecular orbitals, Chemistry, Organic, Boranes, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, Nobel Prize winners, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Djerassi, Carl

Photographs, Slides

Sir Robert Robinson and Robert Burns Woodward at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1951

Color photograph of British organic chemist and Nobel laureate Sir Robert Robinson (1886-1975) and American organic chemist and Nobel laureate Robert Burns Woodward (1917-1979) posed in front of a chalkboard at the…

Photographer Roberts, John D., 1918-2016
Subject Chemists, Chemistry, Organic, Robinson, Robert, 1886-1975, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, American Chemical Society, Nobel Prize winners

5 items

Oral histories

Oral history interview with William S. Knowles

2008-Jan-30

William S. Knowles begins his oral history by discussing his early life during the Great Depression and his education, including time at Harvard University and Columbia University. Knowles spent the majority of his…

Interviewee Knowles, William S.
Interviewer Grayson, Michael A.
Subject Elderfield, Robert Cooley, 1904-, Chirality, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Chemists, Noyori, Ryoji, Chemists--Biography, Nobel Prize winners, Monsanto Company, Knowles, William S.

3 items

Ephemera

R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar entitled "Sesquiterpenes"

Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

Circa 1959 – 1966

Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry, Sesquiterpenes

7 items

Ephemera

Untitled R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar mentioning camphor

Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

Circa 1959 – 1966

Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Camphor, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry

5 items

Ephemera

R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar entitled "Some recent advances in Natural Products"

Circa 1959 – 1966

Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry

11 items

Ephemera

R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar entitled "N-Et Benzisoxazolium Salts"

Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

Circa 1959 – 1966

Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry

11 items

Ephemera

R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar entitled "[Chemistry] of Azoxylic Acid [Derivatives]"

Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

Circa 1959 – 1966

Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry

7 items

Ephemera

R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar entitled "Benzynes"

Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

Circa 1959 – 1966

Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry

6 items

Ephemera

R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's colloquium entitled "The Total Synthesis of Chlorophyll"

Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

Circa 1959 – 1966

Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chlorophyll--Synthesis, Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry

9 items

Ephemera

R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar entitled "Some Calabash Alkaloids"

Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

Circa 1959 – 1966

Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Alkaloids, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry

6 items

Ephemera

R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar entitled "Claude Seminar"

Circa 1959 – 1966

Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry

11 items

Ephemera

R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar entitled "Oxidations in Basic Medium"

Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

Circa 1959 – 1966

This folder contains notes written by Robert E. Kohler concerning chemical syntheses from R. B. Woodward's seminar lectures, specifically his Thursday Evening Seminars predating the formulation of the Woodward-Hoffmann…

Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Oxidation, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry

6 items

Ephemera

Professor R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward’s Harvard lecture entitled "Towards the Synthesis of Chlorophyll"

Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

Circa 1959 – 1966

Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chlorophyll--Synthesis, Chemistry, Organic, Harvard University, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry

10 items

Ephemera

R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar entitled "Amino Esters (Ethers)"

Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

Circa 1959 – 1966

Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry, Local anesthetics

7 items

Ephemera

Untitled R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar mentioning Dr. T. Fukunaga

Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

Circa 1959 – 1966

Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
Subject Historians of science, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Fukunaga, T, Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry

14 items

Ephemera

R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward Seminar entitled "Aldosterone & C-18, C-19 [Final] Steroids"

Part of Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

Circa 1959 – 1966

Creator Of Work Kohler, Robert E.
Subject Historians of science, Aldosterone, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Chemistry, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Kohler, Robert E., Chemistry, Organic, Molecular structure, Chemists--Biography, Chemical industry

41 items

Manuscripts

Notes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars

Circa 1959 – 1966

This folder contains notes written by Robert E. Kohler concerning chemical syntheses from R. B. Woodward's seminar lectures, specifically his Thursday Evening Seminars predating the formulation of the Woodward-Hoffmann…