| LC control no. | no2011065982 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Heck, Richard F. |
| Associated place | Los Angeles (Calif.) Wilmington (Del.) Newark (Del.) |
| Birth date | 1931-08-15 |
| Death date | 2015-10-10 |
| Place of birth | Springfield (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Manila (Philippines) |
| Field of activity | Chemistry |
| Affiliation | University of Delaware University of California, Los Angeles Hercules Powder Company |
| Profession or occupation | Chemists |
| Found in | Palladium reagents in organic syntheses, 1985: t.p. (Richard F. Heck) Washington post WWW site, viewed Oct. 13, 2015 (Richard Heck, who shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for creating a reaction that has been widely hailed for its prolific usefulness in many areas of modern life, such as drug development, electronic display screens and DNA sequencing, died Oct. 10 [2015] in the Philippines; he was 84; Dr. Heck's death in Manila was reported by the University of Delaware, where he was a professor emeritus; the reaction pioneered by Dr. Heck is known as the Heck reaction; it is a palladium-catalyzed carbon cross-coupling reaction; Richard Fred Heck was born in Springfield, Mass., on Aug. 15, 1931; chemistry became his major at the University of California at Los Angeles, from which he received a bachelor's degree in 1952 and a doctorate in 1954; after postdoctoral research, he began working at Hercules Powder in Wilmington, Del.; he left Hercules (now Ashland) in 1971 to go to the University of Delaware in Newark Del.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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