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William Standish Knowles (June 1, 1917 – June 13, 2012) was an American chemist. He was born in Taunton, Massachusetts. Knowles was one of the recipients of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
William Standish Knowles (Taunton, 1 de junho de 1917 — 13 de junho de 2012 [1]) foi um químico estadunidense. Conjuntamente com Ryōji Noyori e Barry Sharpless, foi agraciado com o Nobel de Química de 2001 pelo seu trabalho sobre as reações de hidrogenação catalisadas por quiralidade. [2]
Bill Knowles was able to look back on his career and at what is being done now. Asymmetric hydrogenation is now a key tool for the manufacture of molecules used in the life science industry. He saw monodentate phosphorus ligands being used for asymmetric hydrogenations after a hiatus of over 30 years.
- David Ager, Albert Chan, Scott Laneman, John Talley
- 2012
15 de jun. de 2012 · William S. Knowles, who was 84 and in retirement when he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 for improving ways to manufacture drugs, including L-dopa for the treatment of Parkinson’s...
At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math. I took the minimum of humanities. I was told I’d be a natural for physical chemistry but taking organic with Louis Fieser changed my mind. It was there I got my introduction to optical isomerism and the tetrahedral carbon atom.
14 de nov. de 2005 · Enriching only the bioactive chiral forms of a compound has been a major focus among chemists for decades, and William S. Knowles is one of the founding pioneers of the field of chiral chemistry. Retired after more than 40 years at Monsanto (St. Louis, MO), Knowles was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2004.
28 de mai. de 2024 · William S. Knowles (born June 1, 1917, Taunton, Massachusetts, U.S.—died June 13, 2012, Chesterfield, Missouri) was an American chemist who, with Noyori Ryōji and K. Barry Sharpless, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2001 for developing the first chiral catalysts.
