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DIED. Robert B. Woodward, 62, a Harvard professor for four decades who won the 1965 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in organic synthesis; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. A child prodigy who experimented in his basement lab at home, Woodward entered M.I.T. at 16, got his B.S. at 19 and Ph.D. at 20. In 1937 he joined the Harvard faculty and in 1944 synthesized the antimalarial drug quinine, a project he had worked on since his teens. He then synthesized cholesterol, cortisone, several antibiotics and chlorophyll and, in 1972, vitamin B12, at that time the most...
...Woodward's work made possible the synthesis of complicated organic molecules such as chlorophyll and vitamin...
...Woodward looked on it as a personal challenge and game to synthesize the most complicated materials possible," Blout said...
...Woodward was the closest to a true genius I have ever known," Blout said. "He had a clarity of thinking and an ability to see to an objective that is the characteristic of true genius. It is quite possible that if he had lived he would have won or shared a second Nobel Prize...
...Woodward is survived by four children. The funeral will be private. A memorial service open to the public is planned for the fall...