Jerome A. Berson
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Jerome A. Berson (May 10, 1924 – January 13, 2017) was an American chemist who was a Sterling Professor at Yale University, and also a published author. He worked on sigmatropic rearrangements, thermal and carbocationic rearrangements, and the role of orbital symmetry in chemical reactions while at University of Wisconsin. While at Yale University, he was part of many new studies, especially on non-Kekulé molecules.
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Born | May 10, 1924 (1924-05-10) |
Died | January 13, 2017(2017-01-13) (aged 92) |
Alma mater | City College of New York (B.S., Chemistry, 1944) Columbia University (M.A., 1947; Ph.D., Chemistry, 1949) |
Spouse | Bella Zevitovsky |
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Fields | Organic chemistry |
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Doctoral students | Theodore Cohen |
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