Raymond Urgel Lemieux
| Raymond Urgel Lemieux | |
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| Born |
June 16, 1920 Lac La Biche, Alberta |
| Died |
July 22, 2000 (aged 80) Edmonton, Alberta |
| Residence | Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Fields | Chemist |
| Institutions |
University of Alberta University of Ottawa University of Saskatchewan National Research Council |
| Alma mater |
University of Alberta (B.Sc., Honor) McGill University (Ph.D.) Ohio State University (Postdoctoral) |
| Known for | carbohydrate chemistry, the first synthesis of sucrose, anomeric effect, Lemieux-Johnson oxidation |
| Notable awards | Officer of the Order of Canada (1968), Tishler Award (Harvard University, 1983), NSERC Gold Medal in Science (1991), Albert Einstein World Award of Science (1992), Companion of the Order of Canada (1994), Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1999) |
Raymond Urgel Lemieux, CC, AOE, FRS (June 16, 1920 – July 22, 2000) was a Canadian organic chemist, who pioneered a number of discoveries in the field of chemistry, his first and most famous being the synthesis of sucrose. His contributions include the discovery of the anomeric effect and the development of general methodologies for the synthesis of saccharides still employed in the area of carbohydrate chemistry. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society (England), and a recipient of the prestigious Albert Einstein World Award of Science and Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
Dr. Raymond U. Lemieux was born in Lac La Biche, Alberta, Canada. His family moved to Edmonton, Alberta in 1926. He studied chemistry at the University of Alberta and received a BSc with Honours in Chemistry in 1943. He went on to study at McGill University, where he received his PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1946. He won a post-doctoral scholarship at Ohio State University, where Bristol Laboratories Inc. sponsored his research on the structure of streptomycin. He met his future wife, a doctoral student, at Ohio State and they were married in 1948.
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