Sharpless is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Bevan Sharpless, solar system astronomer
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Karl Barry Sharpless
Karl Barry Sharpless (born April 28, 1941) is an American chemist and a two-time Nobel laureate in Chemistry known for his work on stereoselective reactions and click chemistry.
Sharpless was awarded half of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry " ...
, American chemist and Nobel prize winner
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Josh Sharpless
Joshua David Sharpless (born January 26, 1981) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher.
Biography
Sharpless grew up in the greater Pittsburgh area, attending Freedom Area Senior High School in Freedom, Pennsylvania. Drafted ...
, baseball player
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Christopher Sharpless, 1988 Winter Olympics bobsledder
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Mattie R. Sharpless (born 1942), American diplomat
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Stewart Sharpless
Stewart Sharpless (March 29, 1926 – January 19, 2013) was an American astronomer who carried out fundamental work on the structure of the Milky Way galaxy.
As a graduate student at Yerkes Observatory he worked under William Morgan with fellow g ...
, galactic astronomer
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Sharpless catalog, a 20th-century astronomical catalog with 313 items
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Isaac Sharpless
Isaac Sharpless, Sc.D., LL.D., L.H.D. (1848–1920) was an American educator, born in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
He graduated from Harvard in 1873 and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from there in 1915. He was employed at Ha ...
, educator
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Norman Sharpless
Norman Edward "Ned" Sharpless (born September 20, 1966) is the previous Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Before that, Sharpless was Professor of Medicine and Genetics Chair, Director of University of North Carolina UNC Lineberger ...
, American oncologist and director of the National Cancer Institute
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Disappearance of Toni Sharpless
In the predawn hours of August 23, 2009, Toni Sharpless (born December 27, 1979)Missing person flyer reproduced at and her friend Crystal Johns left a party at the home of Philadelphia 76er Willie Green in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, United Sta ...
, an American nurse who disappeared in 2009
Fictional characters
*A character in
Madama Butterfly
See also
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Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation
Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation (also called the Sharpless bishydroxylation) is the chemical reaction of an alkene with osmium tetroxide in the presence of a chiral quinine ligand to form a vicinal diol. The reaction has been applied to al ...
, a chemical reaction
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Sharpless epoxidation
The Sharpless epoxidation reaction is an enantioselective chemical reaction to prepare 2,3-epoxyalcohols from primary and secondary allylic alcohols. The oxidizing agent is ''tert''-butyl hydroperoxide. The method relies on a catalyst formed fro ...
, a chemical reaction
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Sharpless oxyamination, a chemical reaction
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