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    October 3, 1904, in Busan, Korea, Charles J. Pedersen was the youngest of three children. His father, Brede Pedersen, was a Norwegian marine engineer who...
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    Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1987 was given to Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, and Charles J. Pedersen for their efforts in discovering and determining uses...
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    crown ethers led to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Charles J. Pedersen. This compound is prepared by a modified Williamson ether synthesis...
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  • shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific...
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    One American who was born in South Korea to non-Korean parents, Charles J. Pedersen, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Despite only having one Nobel...
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    protection applications Simple crown ethers, which were invented by Charles J. Pedersen in 1967 which he won a Nobel Prize for the work in 1987 Herbicides...
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  • Swarts in the 1890s. In the late 1920s, a research team was formed by Charles Franklin Kettering in General Motors to find a replacement for the dangerous...
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    and usually was thrown away. However, Kwolek persuaded the technician, Charles Smullen, who ran the spinneret, to test her solution, and was amazed to...
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    189–192. Bibcode:2004NIMPA.520..189N. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2003.11.290. Jason Lawrence, A. B. Patel and J. G. Brisson (2000). "The thermal conductivity of...
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    James Lynah Rudolph Pariser George Parshall Charles J. Pedersen William Dale Phillips Roy J. Plunkett John J. Raskob William K. Reilly Irving S. Shapiro...
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  • particular prize (Peace, 2000). The one that was not specified is Charles J. Pedersen (Chemistry, 1987), who was born in Busan, according to the Nobel...
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    Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) was accidentally discovered in 1938 by Roy J. Plunkett while he was working in New Jersey for DuPont. As Plunkett attempted...
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    James Lynah Rudolph Pariser George Parshall Charles J. Pedersen William Dale Phillips Roy J. Plunkett John J. Raskob William K. Reilly Irving S. Shapiro...
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  • the synthesis of the crown ethers by Charles J. Pedersen. Following this work, other researchers such as Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn and Fritz Vögtle...
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  • in response to customer requests. Happ, Michael; Duffy, John; Wilson, G. J.; Pask, Stephen D.; Buding, Hartmuth; Ostrowicki, Andreas (2011). "Rubber...
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    James Lynah Rudolph Pariser George Parshall Charles J. Pedersen William Dale Phillips Roy J. Plunkett John J. Raskob William K. Reilly Irving S. Shapiro...
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  • 1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1302553 online] Raymond B. Seymour and Charles H. Fisher. "Roy J. Plunkett," in Profiles of Eminent American Chemists, ed. Sylvia...
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    Charles Otis "Chad" Holliday, Jr. (born March 9, 1948) is an American businessman, former chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, former chairman of Bank of America...
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    Jew. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation. ISBN 978-0-941901-24-6. Charles, Daniel (2005). Master mind : the rise and fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel...
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    James Lynah Rudolph Pariser George Parshall Charles J. Pedersen William Dale Phillips Roy J. Plunkett John J. Raskob William K. Reilly Irving S. Shapiro...
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  • Danish painter Carsten Pedersen (born 1977), Danish cricketer Cato Zahl Pedersen (born 1959), Norwegian skier Charles J. Pedersen (1904–1989), American...
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    James Lynah Rudolph Pariser George Parshall Charles J. Pedersen William Dale Phillips Roy J. Plunkett John J. Raskob William K. Reilly Irving S. Shapiro...
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    James Lynah Rudolph Pariser George Parshall Charles J. Pedersen William Dale Phillips Roy J. Plunkett John J. Raskob William K. Reilly Irving S. Shapiro...
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    Buchanan 1987 Georg Bednorz; K. Alex Müller Donald J. Cram; Jean-Marie Lehn; Charles J. Pedersen Susumu Tonegawa Joseph Brodsky Óscar Arias Robert Solow...
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    James Lynah Rudolph Pariser George Parshall Charles J. Pedersen William Dale Phillips Roy J. Plunkett John J. Raskob William K. Reilly Irving S. Shapiro...
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    project grew from a new organizational structure at DuPont, suggested by Charles Stine in 1927, in which the chemical department would be composed of several...
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    elementary schools, 2 middle schools, 5 retreat centers, and 7 parishes. Charles J. Pedersen, 1987 Nobel laureate in chemistry, attended a Marianist high school...
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    Biography. Vol. V. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. pp. 528–529. Tansill, Charles Callan (1946). The Congressional Career of Thomas F. Bayard. Washington...
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