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UCLA Department of Chemistry
Chemistry
1993
"For his pioneering research on
the chemical foundations of molecular recognition; the understanding
of the molecular basis of biological
systems; his shaping of scientific thought and development, and
guidance to generations of students."
Presented by President
Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore at a ceremony on the
White House South Lawn, September 30, 1993.
Cram, like UCLA, was born in 1919. He joined the
UCLA faculty in 1947 and taught chemistry, including introductory
courses, literally to generations of students. "I
was really shocked in the mid-1980s when a young student told me
that her grandmother had
taken my course in 1948," Cram wrote in UCLA Magazine in 1994.
For many years, he led his classes in five minutes of singing each
week.
Cram was the co-author of "Organic
Chemistry," a
well-known textbook used widely in the U.S. His work on host-guest
chemistry earned him the Nobel Prize as well as the National Medal
of Science.
Born in Chester, Vermont, 1919. Died in Palm Desert,
California, June 17, 2001.
 National Science Foundation Citation Page
Biography, UCLA Chemistry Department
Nobel Prize Citation Page (UCLA)
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