Elias Corey

The world's greatest living chemist, Elias Corey, is one of the great pioneers of modern science. In 1990 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis," specifically retrosynthetic analysis. Before Corey's work, chemists synthesized compounds one by one, by trial and error. Corey established general rules that can be applied to the synthesis of any organic substance. Born to a family ...Read More

The world's greatest living chemist, Elias Corey, is one of the great pioneers of modern s...Read More