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Saturo Masamune (1928–2003): Natural Products and Small Rings
Author(s) -
Nakanishi Koji,
Danheiser Rick L.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200490020
Subject(s) - the arts , library science , art history , history , political science , law , computer science
Satoru Masamune died on November 9, 2003 at the age of 75 from complications following a cardiac arrest. Born in Fukuoka (Japan), he completed his science degree in 1952 at Tohoku University under the guidance of Tetsuo Nozoe. He completed his PhD in 1957 at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), under the supervision of Henry Rapoport, as one of the first Fulbright Fellows. He went as a postdoctoral fellow to Eugene van Tamelen at the University of Wisconsin (1956 – 1959), and then took up positions first at the Mellon Institute (1960 – 1964), and then at the University of Alberta (1964 – 78), before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1978, where he became the Arthur C. Cope Professor in 1991. Masamune received the Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society in 1978 and the A. C. Cope Scholar Award in 1987. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Centenary Scholar of the Chemical Society in London (1980), and he received the Fujiwara Award in 1997. He retired in 2000 but continued to visit his MIT office nearly every day until his death. The breadth of Masamune