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One of the nation's top science awards will go to Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry. A leader in the synthesis of quinine and cortisone, Woodward was selected for his "many outstanding contributions to organic chemistry."
He will receive $1000 and the gold medal for 1955 of the Leo Hendrick Baekaland Award of the American Chemical Society's North Jersey Section, Dr. Karl A. Folkers, chairman of the award board, announced Monday.
The award will be presented Jan. 24. The honor is sponsored by the Bakelite Co., a division of Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., of New York.
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