Abstract

This account will be built around some of the leading figures in organic chemistry in this country during the past 100 years. The choice necessarily will be somewhat arbitrary, and many outstanding figures and some important developments will be omitted. Nevertheless, I hope to present a reasonably comprehensive picture of the development of a major science that has played a basic role in the growth of related fields, such as both naturally occurring and synthetic polymers, biochemistry, molecular biology, medicinal chemistry, organic photochemistry, and several areas of spectroscopy—mass, ultraviolet, infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and electron spin resonance (ESR). The year 1876 is a natural starting point for an account of organic chemistry in this country. The American Chemical Society was founded in 1876; Johns Hopkins University, with its graduate program in chemistry under Ira Remsen, opened in 1876 also; the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the American Chemical Journal we...

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