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Donald Cram

Basketball Player

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Donald Cram is a basketball player, best known for Study guide and solutions manual to accompany the essence of organic chemistry.

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Profession: Basketball Player
Notable works: Study guide and solutions manual to accompany the essence of organic chemistry

About Donald Cram

Donald James Cram was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." They were the founders of the field of host–guest chemistry.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Donald Cram

I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm…

Charm

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Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

Chemistry

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To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

Change

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By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was…

Careers

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An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of…

Experiments

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We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

Application

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This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be…

Careers

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