Gilbert Stork

Gilbert Stork Winner of Wolf Prize in Chemistry - 1995

Gilbert Stork (born December 31, 1921) is a U.S. organic chemist. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Columbia University. The Stork enamine synthesis is named in his honor.

Education: University of Florida, B.S. 1942; University of Wisconsin–Madison, PhD 1945 with Samuel M. McElvain

Career

1946 Harvard University: Instructor; 1948 Assistant Professor 1953 Columbia University: Associate Professor; 1955 Professor; 1967-1993 Eugene Higgins Professor; 1993 Professor Emeritus

Elected to

• U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1961
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1962
• Foreign Member of the French Academy of Sciences, 1989
• American Philosophical Society, 1995
• The Royal Society, UK 1999
• Awarded Honorary Fellowship or Membership[edit]
• Chemists' Club of New York, 1974
• Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, 1973
• Chemical Society of Japan, 2002
• Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 1983
• Chairman Organic Division of the American Chemical Society, 1966–1967

Awards

• 1957 Award in Pure Chemistry of the American Chemical Society
• 1959 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
• 1961 Baekeland Medal, North Jersey ACS
• 1962 Harrison Howe Award
• 1966 Edward Curtis Franklin Memorial Award, Stanford University
• 1967 ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
• 1971 Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufactures Association Gold Medal
• 1973 Nebraska Award
  • 1978 Roussel Prize, Paris
• 1980 Nichols Medal, New York ACS, Arthur C. Cope Award, ACS
• 1982 Edgar Fahs Smith Award, Philadelphia ACS
• 1982 Willard Gibbs Medal, Chicago ACS
• 1982 National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences
• 1982 National Medal of Science; Pauling Award
• 1985 Tetrahedron Prize
• 1986 Remsen Award, Maryland ACS; Cliff S. Hamilton Award,
• 1987 Monie A Ferst Award and Medal, Georgia Tech.
• 1991 Roger Adams Award
• 1992 George Kenner Award, Liverpool
• 1992 Robert Robinson Lectureship, University of Manchester
• 1992 Chemical Pioneer Award, American Institute of Chemists
• 1993 Welch Award in Chemistry, Robert A. Welch Foundation
• 1994 Allan R. Day Award, Philadelphia Organic Chemists Club
• 1995 Wolf Prize, Israel
• 2002 Sir Derek Barton Gold medal, Royal Society of Chemistry
• 2005 Herbert C. Brown Award, American Chemical Society
• Prof. Stork also holds honorary doctorates from Lawrence University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Paris, the University of Rochester, and Columbia University.