Roger Adams (January 2, 1889 to July 6, 1971) was an American organic chemist born in Boston, Massachusetts, who died in Urbana, Illinois. He developed the platinum oxide hydrogenation catalyst still known as Adams' catalyst, and his laboratory did extensive work identifying the chemical structure of natural products, including plant oils and toxic alkaloids. As head of the chemistry department at the University of Illinois from 1926 to 1954, Adams trained more than two hundred fifty doctoral students and shaped the growth of American academic chemistry through the middle of the twentieth century.
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Roger Adams (January 2, 1889, July 6, 1971) was an American organic chemist who developed the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and helped determine the composition of natural substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids.
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Roger Adams (January 2, 1889, July 6, 1971) was an American organic chemist who developed the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and helped determine the composition of natural substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids.
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University of Berlin, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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