Reynold C. Fuson
Reynold Clayton Fuson (born June 1, 1895 in Wakefield (Illinois) , † August 4, 1979 in Breslau) was an American chemist (organic chemistry).
Fuson first trained as a teacher at Central Normal College in Danville (Indiana) and then studied chemistry at the University of Montana , at the University of California, Berkeley with a master's degree and was at the University of Minnesota in 1924 with William Hammett Hunter with the Aebeit Naphthalene and the centroid structure doctorate . As a post-doctoral student he was at Harvard University with EP Kohler and from 1927 instructor and later professor at the University of Illinois . In 1963 he retired and was visiting professor at the University of Nevada for fourteen years .
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1944 and received the William H. Nichols Medal in 1953 for pioneering work in stable enols , diols , unusual Grignard reactions, and nucleophilic substitutions .
He was co-editor of Organic Syntheses and the Journal of Organic Chemistry. He published 285 scientific papers. He supervised 154 doctoral students.
Fonts
- Advanced Organic Chemistry, Wiley 1950
- with HR Snyder: Organic Chemistry, 2nd edition, Wiley 1954 (first Wiley / Chapman and Hall 1942)
- Brief Course in Organic Chemistry, Ann Arbor 1940
- Organic Chemistry: lectures for the advanced student, Ann Arbor 1939
- with Ralph Lloyd Shriner The systematic identification of organic compounds , Wiley / Chapman and Hall 1935, 1940, 1948
- Reactions of Organic Compounds; a textbook for the advanced student, Wiley 1962
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Reynold Clayton Fuson at academictree.org, accessed on February 6, 2018th
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fuson, Reynold C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fuson, Reynold Clayton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wakefield, Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1979 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |