Noble Wasserman

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Edel Wasserman (born July 29, 1932 in New York City ) is an American chemist (theoretical chemistry, organic chemistry).

biography

Wasserman studied at Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in 1953 and at Harvard University with a master's degree in 1954 and his doctorate in 1959 with William E. Moffett and Paul D. Bartlett . From 1957 to 1976 he was a research associate at Bell Laboratories . 1962/63 he was visiting professor at Cornell University and from 1967 to 1976 professor at Rutgers University . In 1976 he became director of research at Allied Chemical Corporation and, from 1981, at DuPont's research center . From 1983 to 1992 he was Associate Director of Technology there. In retirement he was a consultant to DuPont.

He is one of the founders of chemical topology, about which he published a fundamental essay with Harry L. Frisch in 1961 and introduced the term. This includes, for example, catenanes and molecules intertwined into knots. In 1960 he published the first evidence of a catenane. The first catenane synthesis he claimed could not be confirmed ( Arthur Lüttringhaus and Gottfried Schill succeeded it in 1964).

In 1999 he was President of the American Chemical Society. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2002 he was Chairman of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP).

From 1971 to 1976 he was a co-editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and 1982 to 1988 of Chemical Review.

In 1955 he married Zelda Rakowitz, with whom he has a son and a daughter.

Fonts (selection)

  • Chemical Topology, Scientific American, November 1962

Web links

  • Short biography on the occasion of a workshop, Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences 2000

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to Pamela Kalte u. a., American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Frisch, Wasserman, Chemical Topology, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 83, 1961, pp. 3789-3795
  3. ↑ E. Wasserman, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 82, 1960, pp. 4433-4434
personal data
SURNAME Wasserman, noble
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City