!!!Carl Djerassi
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Carl Djerassi passed away January 30, 2015.
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__Positions Held__
*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
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__
*__Recipient of twenty-nine honorary doctorates:__
**2013 Sigmund Freud University Vienna
**2013 University of Applied Arts Vienna
**2012 Medical University Vienna
**2012 University Vienna
**2011 University Heidelberg 
**2010 Graz University of Technology
**2010 Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina 
**2010 Rutgers University 
**2009 Technical University Dortmund
**2005 Cambridge University 
**2001 Polytechnic University (NY) 
**2000 University of Aberdeen 
**1998 The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 
**1997 University of Maryland-Baltimore County 
**1995 University of Wisconsin
**1995 University of South Carolina 
**1995 Swiss Fed. Inst. Technol.-ETH 
**1993 Adelphi University
**1985 University of Manitoba 
**1985 University of Ghent 
**1978 University of Geneva
**1978 Coe College
**1977 University of Uppsala
**1975 Columbia University
**1974 Wayne State University 
**1972 Worcester Polytechnic Institute
**1969 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
**1958 Kenyon College, 1958 
**1953 National University of Mexico 
*__Membership__
**Member of the Mexican, Bulgarian, and Brazilian Academies of Sciences
**Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
**Member of U.S. National Academy of Sciences and of its Institute of Medicine
**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
*__Awards__
**William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement
**2012 Maecenas Award
**2010 Foreign member of the Royal Society
**2008 Great Silver Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
**2005 Serono Prize in Literature (Rome)
**2005 Lichtenberg Medal of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences
**2004 American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal
**2004 The Austrian Post Office issued a stamp in his honor
**2003 Sigillum magnum of the University of Bologna
**2003 Great Merit Cross of Germany
**2003 Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal
**2001 Author’s Prize of the German Chemical Society
**2000 Othmer Gold Medal of the Chemical Heritage Foundation
**1999 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
**1998 Sigma Xi
**1997 Willard Gibbs Medal
**1996 Sovereign Fund Award
**1995 Prince Mahidol Award (Thailand) in Medicine
**1994 Thomson Gold Medal of the International Mass Spectrometry Society
**1992 Priestley Medal
**1992 Nevada Medal
**1991 National Medal of Technology for his contributions in the insect control field.
**1990 Award for the Industrial Application of Science  from the National Academy of Sciences
**1989 Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest
**1988 Roussel Prize (Paris)
**1988 Discoverer’s Award of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
**1983 Bard Award in Medicine and Science
**1983 Award in the Chemistry of Contemporary Technological Problems
**1978 First Wolf Prize in Chemistry
**1975 Society for Chemical Industry’s Perkin Medal
**1973 National Medal of Science
**1973 Award for Creative Invention
**1973 American Institute of Chemists Chemical Pioneer Award  
**1970 American Institute of Chemists Freedman Foundation Patent Award
**1969 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 
**1968 Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the American Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences
**1960 Fritzsche Award
**1959 Baekeland Medal
**1958 Award in Pure Chemistry by the American Chemical Society
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