Jerome Berson

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Jerome Abraham Berson (born May 10, 1924 in Sanford , Florida - † January 13, 2017 ) was an American chemist . He was a professor at Yale University .

Career

Jerome Berson studied at City College of New York with a bachelor's degree in 1944 and at Columbia University with a master's degree in 1947 and a doctorate under William von Eggers Doering in 1949. As a post-doctoral student , he was at Harvard University from 1949 to 1950 . Then he was Assistant Professor and later Professor at the University of Southern California , from 1963 Professor at the University of Wisconsin and from 1969 Professor at Yale University ( Sterling Professor ). There he was Dean of Physical Science and Engineering from 1983 to 1990 and headed the chemistry faculty from 1971 to 1974.

Among other things, he was visiting professor at Caltech ( Sherman Fairchild Professor 1974/75), in Karlsruhe , Cologne (1965), the University of Western Ontario , in Lausanne and at UCLA . In addition to organic chemistry (synthesis and theory, mechanisms of organic reactions), he also dealt with the philosophy and history of chemistry.

honors and awards

Berson received the William H. Nichols Medal , the James Flack Norris Award , the Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry, and the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1957 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1980 he received the Humboldt Research Award .

Fonts

  • Chemical Discovery and the Logicians' Program: A Problematic Pairing , Wiley-VCH, 2003
  • Chemical Creativity: Ideas from the Work of Woodward, Meerwein, and Hückel , Wiley-VCH, 1999
  • Chemistry program of the air force office of scientific research , Ft. Belvoir Defense Technical Information Center, 1967
  • Nitrogen analogs of sesquifulvalene , Pasadena: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 1965

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Jerome A. Berson (1924-2017). In: ChemViews Magazine. January 23, 2017, accessed February 14, 2017 .
  3. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Jerome A. Berson at academictree.org, accessed on January 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Berson, Jerome
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berson, Jerome Abraham (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Sanford , Florida
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2017