Charles J. Pedersen (1904 -1989)

Awarded the Prize “for his development use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high ivity.”

American chemist. Pedersen was born in Pusan, Korea on October 3, 1904 moved with his family to America in the 1920s. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1953. Pedersen was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , for most of his career up to his retirement in 1969, he worked as a research chemist for DuPont. Pedersen died on October 26, 1989.