Dale Lester Boger is an American medicinal and organic

chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe t ...

and former chair of the Department of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute in

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, CA. Dale Boger was born on August 22, 1953, in

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. He studied chemistry at the

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(B.S., 1975),

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1980,

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, under Professor

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. Following graduate school, he joined the faculty at the

where he became assistant/associate professor of medicinal chemistry (1979–1985). In 1985, he started at

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, where he was professor of chemistry (1985–1991). He is Richard and Alice Cramer Professor of Chemistry and member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at The Scripps Research Institute. Boger is active in the field of

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with research interests including natural product synthesis, synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry, and

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. He is also the author of a popular book on synthetic organic chemistry: Modern Organic Synthesis Lecture Notes (TSRI Press, 1999).

Awards

Dale Boger has received numerous awards and honors including: *NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, 1975–78 * Searle Scholar Award, 1981–84 *NIH Research Career Development Award, 1983–88 * Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1985–89 *ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 1988 *

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Academic Award, 1988 *Japan Promotion of Science Fellow, 1993 *ISHC Katritzky Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry, 1997 *Honorary Member, The Lund Chemical Society (Sweden), 1998 *ACS Aldrich Award for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, 1999 *A. R. Day Award, POCC 1999 *Honorary Ph.D. Degree: Laurea Honors Causa, Univ. of Ferrara, 2000 *Smissman Lecturer, Univ. of Kansas, 2000 *Yamanouchi USA Faculty Award, 2000 * Myron L. Bender & Muriel S. Bender Distinguished Summer Lectureship,

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, 2001 *

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Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, 2002 *Ross Lecturer, Dartmouth College, 2002 *Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003 *Adrien Albert Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003 *ISI Highly Cited (top 100 chemists) *Alder Lecturer, University of Köln, 2005 *Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006 *ACS Guenther Award in Natural Products, 200

*Editor-in-Chief,

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, 1990–present *Executive Editorial Board Member, Tetrahedron Publications, 1990–present *ACS Medicinal Chemistry Division *Long Range Planning Committee, 1981–1983 *Awards Committee, 1984–1986 *Councilor, 1996–1999

References

Sources

* https://web.archive.org/web/20070926225751/http://www.scripps.edu/chem/boger/db.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20060911020926/https://www.chemistry.msu.edu/Lectureships/lectures.asp?series=DK&Year=1997 *

External links

Boger group - scripps.edu
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