Word: cholesterolâ
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Disdaining all other activities (exercise seems a particular waste of time to him), Woodward has been the architect of some of the most complex biological molecules ever built by man. He synthesized quinine by the time he was 26, kept lengthening the list of his accomplishments?cortisone, strychnine, reserpine. cholesterol???until this year he manufactured the most complicated substance of all: chlorophyll. Says an admiring colleague: "It's not his chemical synthesis but his intellectual synthesis that is so striking...
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