Albert Eschenmoser

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Swiss scientist human organic chemist

Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and synthesis of vitamin B12 and for fundamental contributions to the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms and prebiotic chemistry.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Swiss scientist → human → organic chemist →
awardReceived	Arthur C. Cope Award → Davy Medal → Marcel Benoist Prize → Paracelsus Prize → Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry → Wolf Prize in Chemistry →
citizenship	Switzerland →
collaboratedWith	Robert Burns Woodward →
countryOfBirth	Switzerland →
dateOfBirth	1925-08-05 →
doctoralAdvisor	Leopold Ružička →
educatedAt	ETH Zurich →
employer	ETH Zurich →
familyName	Eschenmoser →
fieldOfWork	bioorganic chemistry → organic chemistry → prebiotic chemistry →
gender	male →
givenName	Albert →
hasAcademicDiscipline	chemistry → organic synthesis →
knownFor	Eschenmoser sulfide contraction → Eschenmoser–Claisen rearrangement → Eschenmoser–Tanabe fragmentation → research on the origin of biomolecular homochirality → research on the structure of vitamin B12 → studies on organic reaction mechanisms → total synthesis of vitamin B12 → work on prebiotic nucleic acid analogues →
languageSpoken	German →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina → Royal Society →
name	Albert Eschenmoser →
nationality	Swiss →
notableStudent	André S. Dreiding → Steven A. Benner →
notableWork	collaborative total synthesis of vitamin B12 with Robert Burns Woodward →
placeOfBirth	Burg, Aargau →
positionHeld	professor of organic chemistry at ETH Zurich →
researchInterest	abiotic formation of biomolecules → nucleic acid chemistry → vitamin B12 biosynthesis →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
ACS Award in Organic Chemistry →	hasRecipient
Albert Eschenmoser →	name