RARE “National Medal Of Science" Frank Westheimer Hand Signed FDC Dated 1963 for Sale

RARE “National Medal Of Science" Frank Westheimer Hand Signed FDC Dated 1963 For Sale

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RARE “National Medal Of Science" Frank Westheimer Hand Signed FDC Dated 1963:
$104.99

Up for sale "American Chemist" Frank Westheimer Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1963.

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Frank Henry Westheimer (January 15, 1912

– April 14, 2007) was an American chemist.

He taught at the University of Chicago from 1936 to 1954, and at Harvard

University from 1953 to 1983, becoming the Morris Loeb

Professor of Chemistry in 1960, and Professor Emeritus in 1983. The

Westheimer medal was established in his honor in 2002. Westheimer

did pioneering work in physical organic chemistry, applying techniques from physical

to organic chemistry and integrating the two fields. He explored the

mechanisms of chemical and enzymatic reactions, and made fundamental theoretical advances. Westheimer

worked with John Gamble Kirkwood on of carboxylic acids; with Joseph Edward Mayer on the calculation of molecular mechanics; explored the mechanisms and determined the mechanisms of chromic acid oxidations

and kinetic isotope effects. He received the National Medal of Science in 1986 "For his series of

extraordinary, original and penetrating investigations of the mechanisms of

organic and enzymic reactions, which have played an unequaled role in the

advancement of our knowledge of the ways in which chemical and biochemical

processes proceed."