Robert N. Boyd
Robert Neilson Boyd (born July 18, 1914 , † July 16, 2000 in New York City ) was an American chemist ( organic chemistry ). From 1947 he was professor of chemistry at New York University .
He received his doctorate in 1939 from the University of California, Berkeley under Joel H. Hildebrand (The effect of temperature on the structure of mercury). He is best known as the author of an organic chemistry textbook with Robert T. Morrison that first appeared in 1959 and has been a standard textbook in the United States and beyond, selling over 2 million copies.
Fonts
- Robert T. Morrison, Robert N. Boyd: Textbook of Organic Chemistry , 3rd Edition, Verlag Chemie, Weinheim 1986, ISBN 3-527-26067-6 .
- First as Organic Chemistry , Boston: Allyn and Bacon 1959, 6th edition Prentice-Hall 1992
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert N. Boyd in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ^ New York Times obituary on July 18, 2000
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Robert Neilson Boyd at academictree.org, accessed on 14 January 2018th
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boyd, Robert N. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boyd, Robert Neilson (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Chemist (Organic Chemistry) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1914 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 2000 |
| Place of death | New York City |