Daniel S. Kemp

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Daniel Schaeffer Kemp (born October 20, 1936 in Portland , Oregon ; † May 2, 2020 ) was an American chemist and university professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Life

Kemp studied chemistry with a Bachelor of Arts degree (1958) from Reed College . His doctoral thesis dealt at the chemistry department at the Harvard University in 1964, he was at Robert B. Woodward with the work The N-ethylbenzisoxazolium cation doctorate . In 1968 he received a research grant ( Sloan Research Fellowship ) from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation . He died in 2020 at the age of 83 during the COVID-19 pandemic near Concord , Massachusetts .

Awards

Works

  • Daniel S. Kemp, Frank Vellaccio: Organic Chemistry . Worth Publishers, 1980, ISBN 0-87901-123-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Daniel S. Kemp at academictree.org, accessed on February 15 2018th
  2. ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed June 17, 2019 .
  3. Danielle Doughty: Daniel Kemp, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 83rd Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, May 8, 2020, accessed May 8, 2020 .
  4. ^ Daniel Schaeffer Kemp. Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service, accessed May 8, 2020 .