Raymond Lemieux

Raymond Urgiel Lemieux (born June 16, 1920 in Lac La Biche , Alberta Canada , † July 22, 2000 ) was a Canadian organic chemist, known for his work in sugar chemistry.

Lemieux studied chemistry at the University of Alberta (bachelor's degree in 1943) and received his doctorate in 1946 with Clifford B. Purves at McGill University . As a post-graduate student, he did research on the structure of streptomycin at Ohio State University . Then he was two years Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan , was Senior Research Officer at the Praerie Regional Laboratory of the National Research Council in Saskatoon and from 1954 Professor and Dean at the University of Ottawa , where he built up the Faculty of Chemistry. In 1961 he went back to the University of Alberta as head of the organic chemistry department. In 1981 he was promoted to university professor and in 1985 he retired. He died of an aneurysm .

In 1953 he was the first to synthesize sucrose with post-doctoral student George Huber . He then did further research on the synthesis of sugars with applications to the development of drugs such as antibiotics . He founded several companies in the 1960s and 1970s.

In 1990 he published his autobiography Explorations with sugars: how sweet it is .

A chair and the building of the chemistry faculty at the University of Alberta are named after him (the faculty building also after his former boss Harry Gunning).

In 1954 he became a member of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1967 of the Royal Society . In 1966 he received the Claude S. Hudson Award from the American Physical Society , in 1985 the Gairdner Foundation International Award , in 1990 the König Faisal Prize , in 1991 the Herzberg Medal and in 1999 the Wolf Prize in Chemistry. In 1994 he became Companion of the Order of Canada and in 1990 he was awarded the Alberta Order of Excellence . He was an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University .

Web links

Biography on the occasion of the Alberta Order of Excellence

Individual evidence

↑ The life data, publications and academic family tree of Raymond Urgel Lemieux at academictree.org, accessed on February 25, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Lemieux, Raymond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lemieux, Raymond Urgiel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 16, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lac La Biche , Alberta
DATE OF DEATH	July 22, 2000

[1] The life data, publications and academic family tree of Raymond Urgel Lemieux at academictree.org, accessed on February 25, 2018.