Robert Burns Woodward was an American chemist born on April 10, 1917, and passed away on July 8, 1979. He was born in Boston and studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Between 1941 and 1963, he taught chemistry at Harvard University. In 1963, he became the director of the Woodward Research Institute in Basel, Switzerland. He, along with American chemist William Doering, synthesized quinine in 1944 and cholesterol and cortisone in 1951. He directed research on strychnine in 1954 and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1965 for his work on antibiotics.
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Meaning of the name - Robert
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Place of Birth: Boston
Place of Death: Cambridge
Cause of Death: myocardial infarction
Educated At: Quincy High School | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Occupation: university teacher | chemist
Spouses: Eudoxia Woodward
Employers: Harvard University
Awards Received: honorary doctorate of Technion | William H. Nichols Medal | Robert Robinson Award | Centenary Prize | American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry | Foreign Member of the Royal Society | Lavoisier Medal | Arthur C. Cope Award | Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry | Remsen Award | AMA Scientific Achievement Award | Willard Gibbs Award | National Medal of Science | Davy Medal | Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Copley Medal
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Note: Moon position is location and time sensitive.| Planet | Position (Tropical, Western) | Transits on April 10, 2026 | Secondary Progressions for April 10, 2026 |
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| Sun | 20 Aries 15 | 20 Aries 50 | 5 Leo 0 |
| Moon | 27 Scorpio 55 | 26 Capricorn 17 | 21 Scorpio 51 |
| Mercury | 2 Taurus 54 | 24 Pisces 5 | 21 Leo 23 |
| Venus | 16 Aries 10 | 13 Taurus 34 | 29 Leo 57 |
| Mars | 11 Aries 35 | 0 Aries 41 | 0 Cancer 22 |
| Jupiter | 11 Taurus 16 | 16 Cancer 33 | 5 Gemini 18 |
| Saturn | 24 Cancer 37 | 6 Aries 39 | 4 Leo 58 |
| Uranus | 22 Aquarius 44 | 29 Taurus 13 | 22 Aquarius 22 |
| Neptune | 2 Leo 5 | 2 Aries 33 | 4 Leo 38 |
| Pluto | 2 Cancer 26 | 5 Aquarius 21 | 4 Cancer 41 |
| Rahu | 15 Capricorn 5 | 6 Pisces 53 | 9 Capricorn 18 |
| Ketu | 15 Cancer 5 | 6 Virgo 53 | 9 Cancer 18 |
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