Robert Elderfield

Robert Elderfield

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name = Robert Elderfield


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birth_date = birth date |1904|5|30
birth_place = Niagara Falls, New York, United States
death_date = death date and age|1979|12|10|1904|5|30
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nationality = American
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field = Chemist
work_institution = Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research,
Columbia University,
University of Michigan
alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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doctoral_students = William Standish Knowles
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Robert Cooley Elderfield (May 30, 1904 – December 10, 1979) was an American chemist. He was born in Niagara Falls, New York, United States.

He studied at the Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, later at the University of Michigan receiving his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1920. He worked at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Researchfrom 1930 till 1936 when he changed to Columbia University. He was moved to University of Michigan in 1952.

He started his research with cardiac glycosides and cardiac aglycones shifting to the synthesis of primaquine and other antimalarials, at the end he did some research in new anticancer agents

External links

* Elderfield's [http://books.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/relderfield.html Nobel Foundation biography]


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