Abstract

The Copley Medal is awarded to Professor R. B. Woodward, ForMem. R. S. Professor Woodward is universally acknowledged to be the leading organic chemist of his generation. He has constantly been attracted by the chemistry of naturally occurring substances and his work has transformed the field. He recognized at a very early stage that spectroscopy allowed a control of synthetic and degradative research that could not previously have been contemplated. He made major contributions to the structure determination of complex molecules from widely different classes of compounds, including penicillin, strych­nine, patulin, gelsemine, cevine, aureomycin, calycanthine and tetrodotoxin.

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