Jerrold Meinwald

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Jerrold Meinwald (born January 16, 1927 in New York City , † April 23, 2018 in Ithaca ) was an American chemist (organic chemistry, biochemistry). Together with Thomas Eisner , with whom he worked closely, he is considered the father of chemical ecology , that is, the study of chemical interactions between animals, plants and microorganisms.

Life

Meinwald went to Brooklyn College and Queens College and was an electronics technician in the US Navy in 1945/46. He studied at the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1948 (and a Ph. B. 1947) and at Harvard University with a master's degree in 1950. In 1952 he received his doctorate under Robert B. Woodward with the thesis Studies on lysergic acid . He was then an instructor and later a professor at Cornell University , from 1980 as Goldwin Smith Professor .

Meinwald researched pheromones in insects, other arthropods as well as some amphibians and mammals, the underlying signaling pathways and signaling molecules. This had important uses in agriculture and pest control. He published around 400 scientific papers with around 200 co-authors. In his collaboration with Eisner, his focus was on biology, while von Meinwald's focus was on chemistry. Meinwald originally started with research in "ordinary" organic chemistry.

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1969), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1970), of which he was secretary in 2015/16, the American Philosophical Society (1987) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He received the Roger Adams Award in 2005 , the Ernest Guenther Award , the Chemical Pioneer Award in 1997 , the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1990 (with Thomas Eisner ), the Heyrovský Medal in 1996 , and the Grand Prix of the Maison de la chimie, Gustavus in 2006 John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest (with Eisner), the silver medal of the International Society of Chemical Ecology, the Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) in chemistry for pioneering work in chemical ecology in 2013 and the Nakanishi Prize of the Chemical Society of Japan in 2014. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1989 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg.

He played the flute and recorder and performed in chamber music concerts. He was married to Charlotte Greenspan for 37 years and has three daughters.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Tom Fleischman: Jerrold Meinwald, 2014 National Medal of Science winner, dies at 91. In: Cornell Chronicle. April 25, 2018, accessed April 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Jerrold My Forest at academictree.org, accessed on 2 January of 2019.
  4. ↑ Member History: Jerrold Meinwald. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 30, 2018 (with biography).
  5. ↑ Cornell Chronicle 2012
personal data
SURNAME Meinwald, Jerrold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2018
Place of death Ithaca