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David A. Evans (January 11, 1941 – April 29, 2022) [1] [2] [3] was an American chemist who was the Abbott and James Lawrence professor of chemistry at Harvard University. [4] [5] He was a prominent figure in the field of organic chemistry and his research focused on synthetic chemistry and total synthesis, particularly of large biologically active molecules.
Harvard's efforts to provide formal education in advanced science and engineering began in 1847, when Massachusetts industrialist Abbott Lawrence gave Harvard $50,000 (equivalent to $1,400,000 in 2023) to form what became known as the Lawrence Scientific School.
He became an assistant professor of chemistry at Harvard University in 1919 and the Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1929. He researched the physical structures of natural products , particularly chlorophyll , and he was one of the first to explore the sometimes complex relationship between chemical equilibrium and the reaction ...
An aerial view of the Harvard University campus at night in July 2017. The history of Harvard University begins in 1636, when Harvard College was founded in New Towne, a settlement founded six years earlier in colonial-era Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Chemistry education (or chemical education) is the study of teaching and learning chemistry. It is one subset of STEM education or discipline-based education research (DBER). [1] Topics in chemistry education include understanding how students learn chemistry and determining the most efficient methods to teach chemistry.
Michael Brenner created the popular Harvard course, Science of the Physical Universe 27, “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter.” The course explores the physical and chemical properties of matter through the lens of cooking science, and incorporates cooking and eating into lab sections. Weekly lectures ...
Albert Baird Hastings (November 20, 1895 – September 24, 1987) was an American biochemist and physiologist.He spent 28 years as the department chair and Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry at Harvard University.
Dudley Robert Herschbach (born June 18, 1932) is an American chemist at Harvard University.He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes". [1]