Awards & Winners

Samuel J. Danishefsky

Date of Birth 10-March-1936
Place of Birth Bayonne
(Hudson County, New Jersey, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Samuel Danishefsky
Profession Chemist
Samuel J. Danishefsky is an American chemist working as a professor at both Columbia University and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

Awards by Samuel J. Danishefsky

Check all the awards nominated and won by Samuel J. Danishefsky.

2006


NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
(For his wide-ranging accomplishments in natural products total synthesis and for his pioneering chemical synthesis of carbohydrates for the development of anticancer vaccines.)

1995


Wolf Prize in Chemistry
(For designing and developing novel chemical reactions which have opened new avenues to the synthesis of the synthesis of complex molecules, particularly polysaccharides and many other biologically and medicinally important compounds.)