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From page 351... ... RICHARD BALDWIN TURNER October 7, 1916-December 22, 1971 BY MARSHALL GATES RICHARD B TURNER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 7' 1916 to Hubert Michael Turner ant! Read the entire page →
From page 352... ... 352 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS He retired from Yale in 1952 anct cTiect of a heart attack while living at the Yale Faculty Club in 1965. Dick's mother, Jessie Baldwin Turner, was born in Deer Park, Illinois. Read the entire page →
From page 353... ... Cope. He remained with this group until 1948, when he returned to Harvard as a research fellow of the American Cancer Society, for the first time working alone or with one or two technicians on problems of his own inception. Read the entire page →
From page 354... ... 354 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS from the two years he spent with Kendall's group at the Mayo Clinic. A series of six papers on the general subject of steroids derived from bile acids appeared in the period from 1946 to 1952. Read the entire page →
From page 355... ... This work brought order based on quantitative results to a large and important area of organic chemistry that theretofore had been characterized by conjecture, hypothesis, and speculation. Read the entire page →
From page 356... ... 356 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS It is perhaps inappropriate to review this work in detail here, but the following important results and conclusions arose directly from it: � The question of homoallylic resonance in such substances as norbornadiene, barrelene, and cis, cis, cis-11,4,7cyclononatriene was resolved once and for all. They are devoid of such resonance. Read the entire page →
From page 357... ... RICHARD BALDWIN TURNER 357 � The essential correctness of a single most stable conformation for cyclociecane, suggested by Dunitz, was established by the demonstration of the necessity for a transoid conformation in I, I,4,4-tetramethy~cyclodecen-7. � The well-known stabilizing effect of alky! Read the entire page →
From page 358... ... 358 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS sured the quantities with precision, and interpreted the results with rigor and sophistication. The importance of this work as a whole attracted much attention, and led to fruitful collaboration with other wellknown chemists both here and abroad. Read the entire page →
From page 359... ... IV. 3,9-Epoxy-/\ choleric acid and closely related compounds. Read the entire page →
From page 360... ... 360 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS 1949 With A Read the entire page →
From page 361... ... RICHARD BALDWIN TURNER 1953 361 With R Read the entire page →
From page 362... ... 362 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS uptake of radioiodine produced by phenothiazine N Read the entire page →
From page 363... ... In: Theoretical Organic Chemistry, p. Read the entire page →
From page 364... ... 364 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS 1965 With P Goebel, W Read the entire page →
From page 365... ... RICHARD BALDWIN TURNER 365 1970 With M Tichy. Read the entire page →

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... RICHARD BALDWIN TURNER October 7, 1916-December 22, 1971 BY MARSHALL GATES RICHARD B TURNER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 7' 1916 to Hubert Michael Turner ant!