Saul Winstein

Saul Winstein ( born October 8, 1912 in Montreal, † November 23, 1969 in Los Angeles ) was a Canadian- American chemist who dealt with physical organic chemistry.

Winstein was born in 1923 in the United States, went to Jefferson High School in Los Angeles, studied at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) with a Bachelor 's degree in 1934 and a master's degree in 1935 ( while still a student, he published with his professor William G. Young) and in 1938 received his doctorate at Caltech at Howard Lucas (silver and mercury complexes of olefins ). As a post-doctoral fellow he was with Paul D. Bartlett at Harvard University and then Instructor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and in 1941 at UCLA. In 1947, he received a full professorship at UCLA, where he stayed until his death.

He went to the influence of neighboring groups on cation formation in organic chemistry and coined terms like homoconjugation, homoaromaticity nonclassical ions and anchimäre support.

He received the 1948 Award in Pure Chemistry, the ACS, the 1967 James Flack Norris Award, and in 1968 the Franklin Memorial Award in Chemistry. In 1970 he received the National Medal of Science. Winstein was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1955) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A professor of organic chemistry at UCLA is named after him.

He was married in 1937 and had a son and a daughter. In 1929 he became a U.S. citizen.