{"id":165,"date":"2009-01-24T22:49:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T22:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falkorpdx.wordpress.com\/?page_id=165"},"modified":"2021-01-15T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T22:58:16","slug":"the-cast","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/the-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who are the guys* at the top of the page?<\/p>\n<p>From left to right:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Robert Woodward<\/strong> (<em>1917-1979<\/em>) &#8211; co-developed Woodward-Hoffmann rules. <a title=\"Woodward Nobel\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/1965\/woodward-bio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nobel 1965<\/a> <a title=\"Robert Woodward\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Burns_Woodward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Wikipedia<\/em><\/a> (for a much more revealing portrait, read J.I. Seeman, <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1002\/anie.201702635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;R.B. Woodward: A Larger-than-Life Chemistry Rock Star&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<em>Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Eng.<\/em>, <strong>2017<\/strong>, <em>56<\/em>, 10228, <strong>DOI: <\/strong>10.1002\/anie.201702635)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arthur Cope<\/strong> (<em>1909-1966<\/em>) &#8211; developed the <a title=\"Cope rearrangement\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cope_rearrangement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cope rearrangement<\/a>. <a title=\"Arthur C. Cope\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_C._Cope\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Wikipedia<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Erich H\u00fcckel<\/strong> (<em>1896-1980<\/em>) &#8211; developed the <a title=\"Huckel MO\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huckel_method\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">H\u00fcckel MO method<\/a> and <a title=\"Huckel Rule\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H%C3%BCckel%27s_rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">H\u00fcckel&#8217;s Rule<\/a> for aromaticity. <a title=\"Erich Huckel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erich_Huckel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Wikipedia<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kenichi Fukui<\/strong> (<em>1918-1998<\/em>) &#8211; developed Frontier MO theory. <a title=\"Fukui Nobel\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/1981\/fukui-autobio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nobel 1981<\/a> <a title=\"Kenichi Fukui\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenichi_Fukui\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Wikipedia<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael J. S. Dewar<\/strong> (<em>1918-1997<\/em>) &#8211; developed the &#8220;aromatic&#8221; transition state concept. <a title=\"Michael J. S. Dewar\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_J._S._Dewar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Wikipedia<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Roald Hoffmann<\/strong> (<em>b. 1937<\/em>) &#8211; co-developed Woodward-Hoffmann rules. <a title=\"Hoffmann Nobel\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/1981\/hoffmann-autobio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nobel 1981<\/a> <a title=\"Roald Hoffmann\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roald_Hoffman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Wikipedia<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>*Yes, they are all guys, but they are a surprisingly heterogeneous bunch for the time period when they did the work that interests us (1930&#8217;s to 1970&#8217;s). The scientists shown above operated across racial, national, linguistic, and religious boundaries. Pretty impressive. Needless to say, a photo gallery of scientists currently active in the fields of physical organic, theoretical, and computational, chemistry, would be far more diverse. In the end, chemistry should be for, and by, everyone.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Added 6\/2\/10:<\/strong> I recently &#8220;discovered&#8221; a very short article in C&amp;ENews (<a title=\"C&amp;ENews\" href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/cen\/topstory\/8104\/8104sci4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S. Wilkinson, &#8220;Symmetry Rules!&#8221; January 27, 2003, 81(4), 59<\/a>) celebrating the publication of the original Woodward-Hoffmann article in 1965. The article is nice to look at because it contains a link to the first W-H article and also photos of both men that were taken around the time when the Rules were published. Hard to believe that they were both younger than I am now (and Hoffmann was much, much closer to <\/em>your<em> age than to mine).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are the guys* at the top of the page? From left to right: Robert Woodward (1917-1979) &#8211; co-developed Woodward-Hoffmann rules. Nobel 1965 Wikipedia (for a much more revealing portrait, read J.I. Seeman, &#8220;R.B. Woodward: A Larger-than-Life Chemistry Rock Star&#8221;,\u00a0Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Eng., 2017, 56, 10228, DOI: 10.1002\/anie.201702635) Arthur Cope (1909-1966) &#8211; developed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":67,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-165","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}