age ~83
from Wakefield, RI
…Chemistry professor Raymond Lemieux was the first to synthesize sucrose. The breakthrough laid the groundwork for new antibiotics and blood reagents, anti-rejection drugs for organ transplants, and better treatments for leukemia and hemophilia.[58]……authors Margaret Atwood, E. ...
Raymond Urgel Lemieux, CC, AOE, FRS (June 16, 1920 July 22, 2000) was a Canadian organic chemist, who pioneered a number of discoveries in the field of chemistry, his first and ...