Ernest Wenkert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ernest Wenkert

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1925

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 20-Jun-2014

Profession: chemist

Nationality: United States, Austria

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Ernest Wenkert

  • Ernest Wenkert, (16 October 1925 – 20 June 2014) was an Austrian-born American chemist. Wenkert received B.S.
  • (1945) and M.S.
  • (1947) degrees in chemistry from the University of Washington.
  • In 1951, he was awarded a Ph.D.
  • degree in organic chemistry from Harvard University, where he studied under Robert Burns Woodward.
  • From 1951, he served as a faculty member at Iowa State University, and was in 1961 appointed as the Herman T.
  • Briscoe Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University.
  • In 1974, he took the position as E.D.
  • Butcher Professor of Chemistry at Rice University, also serving as chair of the chemistry department.
  • In 1980, he moved to the University of California, San Diego, where he stayed until his retirement in 1994.

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