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Louis Frederick Fieser (April 7, 1899 – July 25, 1977) was an American organic chemist, professor, and in 1968, professor emeritus at Harvard University. He invented militarily effective napalm while at Harvard in 1942.
Louis Fieser (1899–1977) hailed from Columbus, Ohio, where his grandfather had once been superintendent of schools. He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts with a degree in chemistry and a great record as an all-around athlete.
Jan 13, 2009 · Louis Frederick Fieser (1899–1977) was an prominent figure among organic chemists of the mid-20 th century, identified today for Reagents for Organic Synthesis, co-authored with his wife Mary Fieser, and now available electronically.
Louis Frederick Fieser, one of the most prolific contributors to Organic Syntheses, as well as a member of the Advisory Board and Editor-in-Chief of Volume 17, died on July 25, 1977, of pneumonia at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts. He is survived by his wife, Mary.
LOUIS FREDERICK FIESER. April 7, 1899-July 25, 1977. BY MARSHALL GATES. LOUIS FREDERICK FIESER, one of the major figures in organic chemistry of this century, was born on April 7, 1899, in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Louis Frederick and Martha Victoria Kershaw Fieser.
Louis Frederick Fieser. Fieser had a strong interest in teaching. His dynamic personality and colorful lecturing style in the elementary organic course, first at Bryn Mawr (1924-30) and then at Harvard (1930-1968), communicated to students his love of science and the pleasure to be derived from a well-executed experiment.
In early January of 1942, in the Gill Laboratory building at Harvard, Louis F. Fieser, Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry Emeritus, perfected a jelled incendiary for military use and...
