Donald J. Cram

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5 total works indexed

1. Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of Its Top Managers

   · 1984 · cited 33,713x

2. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

   · 1992 · cited 28,853x

3. The M06 suite of density functionals for main group thermochemistry, thermochemical kinetics, noncovalent interactions, excited states, and transition elements: two new functionals and systematic testing of four M06-class functionals and 12 other functionals

   · 2007 · cited 28,542x

4. An Algorithm for Least-Squares Estimation of Nonlinear Parameters

   · 1963 · cited 24,308x

5. The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects

   · 1983 · cited 23,715x

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Key facts

Born

April 22, 1919, Chester, Vermont

Died

June 17, 2001 (aged 82), Palm Desert, California

Education

Rollins College (BS) , University of Nebraska (MS) , Harvard University (PhD)

Known for

Cram's rule , Host–guest chemistry , phenonium ions , paracyclophanes

Awards

Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1987), Glenn T. Seaborg Medal (1989), National Medal of Science (1993), Guggenheim fellowship (1955)

Fields

Chemistry

Institutions

UCLA , Merck & Co , MIT

Theses

Amino ketones, mechanism studies of the reactions of heterocyclic secondary amines with -bromo-, -unsaturated ketones. (1942) Syntheses and reactions of 2-(ketoalkyl)-3-hydroxy-1, 4-naphthoquinones (1947)

Doctoral advisor

Louis Fieser

Doctoral students

M. Frederick Hawthorne , Norman L. Allinger

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