Roger Adams

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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL 
Area:
Organic chemistry
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http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=576&page=2
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(1889 - 1971)
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20001492.html
http://www.chemistry.illinois.edu/about/illini_chemists/roger_adams.html
http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/radams.pdf
http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/Info/adamsr.pdf
Adams started his PhD research project with Torrey, but when Torrey died in 1910, Adams completed this project with the advice of Jackson and Forbes (https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990037304580203941/catalog)
https://books.google.com/books?id=XRfukuMjcu8C&pg=PA55&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Parents

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Theodore William Richards research assistant 1912 Harvard
 (From Cooke Tree #1 http://careerchem.com/NAMED/TREES-PEOPLE/Cooke1.pdf)
Henry Augustus Torrey grad student 1912 Harvard
 (I. A study of the solubilities in aqueous alkalis of various hydrazones of certain aromatic ortho-hydroxyaldehydes and ketones. II. Nonanes. III. A new bottling apparatus)
Otto Paul Hermann Diels post-doc 1913 Universität Berlin
Richard Willstätter post-doc 1913 Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Chemie in Berlin-Dahlem
Charles Loring Jackson post-doc 1913-1916 Harvard

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Carl Shipp Marvel research assistant 1917-1919 UIUC
Ernest H. Volwiler grad student 1918 UIUC
Walter Raymond Kirner grad student 1920 UIUC
Arthur William Ingersoll grad student 1922 UIUC
John Raven Johnson grad student 1922 UIUC
Samuel M. McElvain grad student 1923 UIUC
Herbert Orion Calvery grad student 1924 UIUC
Wallace Hume Carothers grad student 1924 UIUC
Wallace R. Brode grad student 1925 UIUC
Ralph Lloyd Shriner grad student 1925 UIUC
Roger Hammond Bray grad student 1926 UIUC
Carl R. Noller grad student 1926 UIUC
Wendell M. Stanley grad student 1929 UIUC
E. Byron Riegel grad student 1934 UIUC
Theodore L. Cairns grad student 1939 UIUC
Bernard Randall Baker grad student 1940 UIUC
Nathan Kornblum grad student 1940 UIUC
Chiang Ming-Chien grad student 1943-1944 UIUC
Jack S. Hine grad student 1947 UIUC
Morton Rothstein grad student 1949 UIUC
Nelson J. Leonard post-doc UIUC
Charles C. Price post-doc 1936 UIUC
Harold Ray Snyder post-doc 1936-1937 UIUC
D. Stanley Tarbell post-doc 1938 UIUC
Theodore A. Geissman post-doc 1937-1939 UIUC
Marvin Carmack post-doc 1941 UIUC
Stanley J. Cristol post-doc 1943-1944 UIUC
Werner Herz post-doc 1949 UIUC
Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari post-doc 1946-1949 UIUC
Benjamin Louis Van Duuren post-doc 1953 UIUC
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Nair MD, Adams R. (1961) Synthesis of dl-Isoretronecanol Journal of Organic Chemistry. 26: 3059-3060
Nair MD, Adams R. (1961) Benzimidazole Syntheses by Oxidative Cyclization with Peroxytrifluoroacetic Acid Journal of the American Chemical Society. 83: 3518-3521
Adams R, Miyano S, Nair MD. (1961) Synthesis of Substituted Pyrrolidines and Pyrrolizidines Journal of the American Chemical Society. 83: 3323-3327
Nair MD, Adams R. (1961) The Structure of Riddellic Acid and the Stereochemistry of Necic Acids Journal of the American Chemical Society. 83: 922-926
ADAMS R, GEISSMAN TA, EDWARDS JD. (1960) Gossypol, a pigment of cottonseed. Chemical Reviews. 60: 555-74
Nair MD, Adams R. (1960) Stereochemistry Of Necic Acids Journal of the American Chemical Society. 82: 3786-3787
Adams R, Miyano S, Fleš D. (1960) 1-Hydroxypyrrolizidine and Related Compounds Journal of the American Chemical Society. 82: 1466-1468
Adams R. (1960) Organic chemistry in the space age Journal of the Franklin Institute-Engineering and Applied Mathematics. 270: 520-529
Adams R, Culvenor C, Robinson C, et al. (1959) Synthesis of Heliotramide Australian Journal of Chemistry. 12: 706-711
Adams R, Dix J. (1959) Additions and Corrections: Restricted Rotation in Aryl Amines. XXI. Effect of 3-Substituents on the Optical Stability of Some N-Benzenesulfonyl-N-carboxy-methylmesidines. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 81: 6533-6533
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