WILLIAM S. KNOWLES

2001 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions.

• Born: June 1, 1917
• Place of Birth: U.S.A.
• Residence: U.S.A.
• Affiliation: Monsato Company, St. Louis USA (Retired)
• Education:
  • Columbia University, Ph. D. 1942

• Asymmetric Catalysis in Organic Synthesis (The George Fisher Baker Non-Resident Lectureship in Chemistry at Cornell) by Ryoji Noyori (1994)
• Comprehensive Asymmetric Catalysis (Comprehensive Overviews in Chemistry) by Eric N. Jacobsen (Editor), Andreas Pfaltz (Editor), Hisashi Yamamoto (Editor) (1999)
• Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds by Ernest L. Eliel, Samuel H. Wilen (Editor), Lewis N. Mander (Editor) (1994)
• Classics in Total Synthesis : Targets, Strategies, Methods by K. C. Nicolaou, E. J. Sorensen (1995)
• Asymmetric Synthesis : Chiral Catalysis by James D. Morrison (Editor) (1985)
• Books about chiral catalysis

• Prize co-recipient: Ryoji Noyori
• Prize co-recipient: K. Barry Sharpless
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