Carl Djerassi#
| Email: | djerassi 'at' stanford.edu |
| Membership Number: | 2220 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Username: | cdjerassi |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 Prof. Emeritus
- 1959 - 2002 professor of chemistry, Stanford University
- 1957-1972 various posts at Syntex (President of Syntex Research (1968-1972)
- 1968 - cofounder of Zoecon Corporation, chief executive officer until 1983, chairman of the board until 1988
- 1952 - 1959 professor of chemistry, Wayne State University
- 1949 associate director of chemical research, Syntex, S.A., Mexico City
- research chemist with CIBA Pharmaceutical Co. in Summit, New Jersey
Fields of Scholarship
- chemistry of natural products (steroids, alkaloids, antibiotics, lipids, and terpenoids)
- applications of physical measurements (notably optical rotatory dispersion, magnetic circular dichroism, and mass spectrometry)
- computer artificial intelligence techniques to organic chemical problems
- initial developments of oral contraceptives, antihistamines and topical corticosteroids
- birth control
Honours and Awards
- National Medal of Science (1973)
- First Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1978)
- National Medal of Technology for his contributions in the insect control field (1991).
- Award in Pure Chemistry (1958) by the American Chemical Society
- Baekeland Medal (1959)
- Fritzsche Award (1960)
- Award for Creative Invention (1973)
- Award in the Chemistry of Contemporary Technological Problems (1983)
- Priestley Medal (1992)
- Willard Gibbs Medal (1997)
- American Institute of Chemists Freedman Foundation Patent Award (1970), its
- American Institute of Chemists Chemical Pioneer Award (1973) as well as its
- American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2004)
- Society for Chemical Industry’s Perkin Medal (1975)
- Bard Award in Medicine and Science (1983)
- Roussel Prize (Paris) (1988)
- Discoverer’s Award of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (1988)
- Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest (1989)
- Award for the Industrial Application of Science (1990) from the National Academy of Sciences
- Nevada Medal (1992)
- Thomson Gold Medal of the International Mass Spectrometry Society (1994)
- Prince Mahidol Award (Thailand) in Medicine (1995)
- Sovereign Fund Award (1996)
- William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement
- Sigma Xi (1998)
- Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art (1999)
- Othmer Gold Medal of the Chemical Heritage Foundation (2000)
- Author’s Prize of the German Chemical Society (2001)
- Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea (2003)
- Sigillum magnum of the University of Bologna (2003)
- Great Merit Cross of Germany (2003)
- Serono Prize in Literature (Rome, 2005)
- Lichtenberg Medal of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (2005)
- Great Silver Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria (2008)
- In 2004, the Austrian Post Office issued a stamp in his honor
- Member of U.S. National Academy of Sciences and of its Institute of Medicine
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
- Member of German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
- Member of Academia Europeae
- Member of the Mexican, Bulgarian, and Brazilian Academies of Sciences
- Foreign member of the Royal Society, 2010
- Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the American Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (1968)
- Recipient of twenty-four honorary doctorates: National University of Mexico (1953); Kenyon College (1958); Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1969); Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1972); Wayne State University (1974); Columbia University (1975); University of Uppsala (1977); Coe College (1978); University of Geneva (1978); University of Ghent (1985); University of Manitoba (1985); Adelphi University (1993); University of South Carolina (1995); University of Wisconsin (1995); Swiss Fed. Inst. Technol.-ETH (1995); University of Maryland-Baltimore County (1997), the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1998); University of Aberdeen (2000); Polytechnic University (NY) (2001); Cambridge University (2005); Technical University Dortmund (2009);Rutgers University (2010); and Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina (2010); Graz University of Technology (2010).
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