Ernest Wenkert

Ernest Wenkert
Born (1925-10-16)16 October 1925
Vienna, Austria
Died 20 June 2014(2014-06-20) (aged 88)
Alma mater University of Washington, Harvard University
Known for Organic chemistry; Natural Products Chemistry
Scientific career
Fields Chemistry
Institutions University of California, San Diego
Doctoral advisor Robert Burns Woodward

Ernest Wenkert, (16 October 1925 – 20 June 2014)[1] was an Austrian-born American chemist.

Wenkert received B.S. (1945) and M.S. (1947) degrees in chemistry from the University of Washington. In 1951, he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from Harvard University, where he studied under Robert Burns Woodward. From 1951, he served as a faculty member at Iowa State University, and was in 1961 appointed as the Herman T. Briscoe Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University. In 1974, he took the position as E.D. Butcher Professor of Chemistry at Rice University, also serving as chair of the chemistry department. In 1980, he moved to the University of California, San Diego, where he stayed until his retirement in 1994.

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  1. ↑ Ferreira, V.F. (2014). "Obituary: Ernest Wenkert" (PDF). Rev. Virtual Quim. 6 (5): 1529–1531. doi:10.5935/1984-6835.20140097.
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