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Donald James Cram Bio

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Donald James Cram:

Donald James Cram was an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Birth:

April 22, 1919 in Chester, Vermont

Death:

June 17, 2001 in Palm Desert, California

Claim to Fame:

Cram was an American chemist who shares with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles Pedersen the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research and development of host-guest chemistry. Host-guest chemistry is where two or more molecules/ions bond in unique ways due to their structure in other than covalent bonds.

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