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Arthur John Birch 1915--1995 (2007)

Rickards, Rodney W. (Author)
Cornforth, John (Author)

Historical Records of Australian Science
Volume: 18
Pages: 243--280

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Arthur John Birch 1915--1995 Rodney W. Rickards and Sir John Cornforth Abstract Arthur John Birch AC CMG FRS FAA was one of the great organic chemists of the twentieth century. He held chairs at the Universities of Sydney and Manchester and at the Australian National University in Canberra, and was President of the Australian Academy of Science from 1982 to 1986. His outstanding research contributions include the Birch reduction of aromatic compounds by sodium and ethanol in liquid ammonia, his polyketide theory of the biosynthesis of natural products, and his studies of synthetic applications of diene iron tricarbonyl complexes. *This memoir is also published in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society of London, 2007. Historical Records of Australian Science 18(2) 243 - 280

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Description On the Australian organic chemist. (Also published in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society of London, 2007.)

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