- 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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footnotes =Robert Cooley Elderfield (
May 30 ,1904 –December 10 ,1979 ) was an Americanchemist . He was born inNiagara Falls, New York ,United States .He studied at the
Choate School inWallingford, Connecticut , later at theUniversity of Michigan receiving his Ph.D. from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1920. He worked at theRockefeller Institute of Medical Research from 1930 till 1936 when he changed toColumbia University . He was moved toUniversity of Michigan in 1952.He started his research with cardiac
glycoside s and cardiacaglycone s shifting to the synthesis ofprimaquine and otherantimalarial s, at the end he did some research in newanticancer agent sExternal links
* Elderfield's [http://books.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/relderfield.html Nobel Foundation biography]
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