Organic chemists: Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, Vladimir Markovnikov, Anthony Joseph Arduengo III, Robert Burns Woodward, Samuel Conway, Heinz Falk, Elias James Corey, Derek Lowe, Robert Gilbert, Hermann Emil Fischer, Richard F. Heck

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Chapters: Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, Vladimir Markovnikov, Anthony Joseph Arduengo III, Robert Burns Woodward, Samuel Conway, Heinz Falk, Elias James Corey, Derek Lowe, Robert Gilbert, Hermann Emil Fischer, Richard F. Heck, Donald J. Cram, John E. Franz, Sundaresan Prabhakar, Guy Bertrand, Vladimir Prelog, Leopold Rüicka, George Rosenkranz, David R. Bryant, Klaus Schmiegel, Friedrich Oskar Giesel, Christopher Kelk Ingold, Adolf von Baeyer, Bertram Fraser-Reid, Kathryn Uhrich, Richard Willstätter, Robert Robinson, Edward M. Burgess, Derek Barton, Charles Loring Jackson, Victor Grignard, Masakatsu Shibasaki, Seymour Shapiro, Georg Wittig, K. C. Nicolaou, Hans Fischer, Endre Berner, Alexander Crum Brown, Steven Zimmerman, Wilhelm Schuler, Stuart Warren, Ulrich S. Schubert, Karl Schlögl, Jeehiun Lee, Karl Barry Sharpless, Andrew Norman Meldrum, Kurt Alder, Arthur Birch, Rainer Ludwig Claisen, Henry Drysdale Dakin, Ivar Karl Ugi, Otto Diels, François Diederich, James Irvine, James Cullen Martin, Otto Ambros, Norbert Bischofberger, Jan Hamer, Thomas Anderson, Wilson Baker, Mark S. Workentin, G. R. Clemo, Hermann Leuchs, David MacMillan, Melvin Spencer Newman, Hans Thacher Clarke, Leiv Kristen Sydnes, F.S. Cloez, Marc Julia, Julius Bredt, Alice Y. Ting, Jonathan Clayden, Ewart Jones, Homer Burton Adkins, Ernest L. Eliel, Hisashi Yamamoto, Antanas Purenas, Fritz Hofmann, Manuel Ballester, Iain Coldham, Gunnar Aksnes, Joseph Jacobs, Neil E. Schore, Jerry March, Philip Eaton, Helmut Schwarz, Joseph H. Burckhalter. Excerpt: Anthony Joseph Arduengo, III is the Saxon Professor of Chemistry at the University of Alabama and an adjunct professor at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry of Braunschweig University of Technology in Germany. He is notable for his work on chemical compounds with unusual valency, especially in the field of stable carbene research. Anthony "Bo" Arduengo was born in 1952 in Tampa, Florida. He grew up in the Atlanta, Georgia area. His father was a pressman and mechanic with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and instilled his son with an interest and skill for all things mechanical and scientific. By the age of 16, he and his father had built his first car from miscellaneous parts. The car was registered as street-legal and road-worthy. With some re-engineering, the car was later fitted to run on alternate fuels including alcohol and hydrogen (which would foretell Arduengo's professional research involvement with President Bush's 2003 National Hydrogen Fuel Initiative (HFI) and United States Department of Energy's Chemical Hydrogen Storage Program by more than 30 years). Arduengo attended Bouldercrest and Meadowview Elementary Schools, and Walker High School. In 1969 he left high school with enrollment in Georgia Tech's Joint Enrollment Program for High School Students (JEPHS). He obtained his BSc (1974, cum laude) and his PhD (1976) at Georgia Tech, advised by Edward M. Burgess. That made him an academic descendant of Justus von Liebig. As an undergraduate at Georgia Tech, Arduengo's research activities began in the laboratory of Professor Charles L. Liotta. He was awarded NSF undergraduate fellowships in 1972 & 1973 when he had moved to research in the Burgess group. As an undergraduate, Arduengo was a member of the Georgia Tech Band and served as Executive Officer and Captain for that organization. In 1971 he was inducted into the Iota chapter of ¿¿¿. In 1972 he was tapped by the Alp...