biography
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Pederson, Charles J
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1904–89)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Fusan, Korea. He moved to the USA in 1927, and became a research chemist at Du Pont (1927–69). He developed the compounds called Crown ethers in the 1960s, initiating a field known as host–guest chemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1987. |
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