Updated at November 14, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Robert Burns Woodward |
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Birthdate | April 10, 1917 |
Birth Place | Massachusetts |
Age (in 2024) | 107 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Chemist |
Robert Burns Woodward is best known as Chemist who has born on April 10, 1917 in Massachusetts. Currently, Robert Burns Woodward is 107 years, 7 months and 4 days old. Robert Burns Woodward will celebrate 108th birthday on Thursday, 10th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Robert Burns Woodward upcoming birthday.
One of the preeminent organic chemist of the 20th century who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1965 for demonstrating through his research that natural products could be synthesized.
He obtained a bachelor's degree from MIT.
He helped synthesize the vitamin B12, which is one of the most complex natural products ever to be synthesized.
He had two children with his first wife Irja Pullman, who he married in 1938; and two children with his second wife, Crystal Elisabeth after marrying 1979.
He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry a year after Dorothy Hodgkin did.
Robert Burns Woodward is 107 years old today.
Robert Burns Woodward was born on April 10, 1917 in Massachusetts.
Robert Burns Woodward zodiac sign is Aries.
Robert Burns Woodward was best known as Chemist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Robert Burns Woodward's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1970 | Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons. |
1971 | Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit. |
1972 | Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong. |
1972 | Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam. |
1973 | Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland, killing 108 people. |
1979 | Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. |
1988 | The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan. |
1991 | Italian ferry MSÂ Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy, killing 140. |
1991 | A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites. |
1998 | The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland. |
2009 | President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis. |
2010 | Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries. |
2016 | The Paravur temple accident in which a devastating fire caused by the explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu, kills more than one hundred people out of the thousands gathered for seventh day of Bhadrakali worship. |
2016 | An earthquake of 6.6 magnitude strikes 39Â km west-southwest of Ashkasham, shakes up India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Srinagar and Pakistan. |
2019 | Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announce the first ever image of a black hole, which was located in the centre of the M87 galaxy. |
1990 | The birth of Alex Pettyfer, English actor |
1991 | The birth of AJ Michalka, American actress and singer |
1992 | The birth of Jack Buchanan, Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Sadio Mané, Senegalese footballer |
1992 | The birth of Chaz Mostert - Australian Supercars driver |
1992 | The birth of Daisy Ridley, English actress |
1993 | The birth of Sofia Carson, American singer and actress |
1994 | The birth of Siobhan Hunter, Scottish footballer |
1995 | The birth of Ian Nelson, American actor |
1996 | The birth of Thanasi Kokkinakis, Australian tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Audrey Whitby, American actress |
1997 | The birth of Claire Wineland, American activist and author (d. 2018) |
1998 | The birth of Anna Pogorilaya, Russian figure skater |
2001 | The birth of Ky Baldwin, Australian singer and actor |
2001 | The birth of Noa Kirel, Israeli singer |
2013 | The death of Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi activist (b. 1911) |
2013 | The death of Robert Edwards, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Olive Lewin, Jamaican anthropologist, musicologist, and author (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Gordon Thomas, English cyclist (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of Angela Voigt, German long jumper (b. 1951) |
2014 | The death of Dominique Baudis, French journalist and politician (b. 1947) |
2014 | The death of Jim Flaherty, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of Richard Hoggart, English author and academic (b. 1918) |
2014 | The death of Sue Townsend, English author and playwright (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Raúl Héctor Castro, Mexican-American politician and diplomat, 14th Governor of Arizona (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of Judith Malina, German-American actress and director, co-founded The Living Theatre (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician, President of Gabon (b. 1942) |
2015 | The death of Peter Walsh, Australian farmer and politician, 6th Australian Minister for Finance (b. 1935) |
2016 | The death of Howard Marks, Welsh cannabis smuggler, writer, and legalisation campaigner (b. 1945) |
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