Sharpless, K. Barry

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Sharpless, K. Barry
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(1941– ). An American who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2001 for his work concerning chirally catalysed oxidation reactions. Awarded an Undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. from Stanford University (E. E. van Tamelen) in 1968. Professorships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford and The Scripps Research Institute. Awarded the ACS Arthur C. Cope Award, 1992 and many other awards.