List of Famous people with last name Fieser

Mary Peters Fieser

First Name Mary

Last Name Fieser

Born on May 27, 1909

Died on March 22, 1997 (aged 87)

Born in United States of America, Kansas

Mary Peters Fieser was an American chemist best known for the many books she wrote with her husband Louis Fieser.

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Louis Fieser

First Name Louis

Last Name Fieser

Born on April 7, 1899

Died on July 25, 1977 (aged 78)

Born in United States of America, Ohio

Louis Frederick Fieser was an American organic chemist, professor, and in 1968, professor emeritus at Harvard University. He is renowned for inventing military effective napalm whilst he worked at Harvard in 1942. His award-winning research included work on blood-clotting agents including the first synthesis of vitamin K, synthesis and screening of quinones as antimalarial drugs, work with steroids leading to the synthesis of cortisone, and study of the nature of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

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