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Date of Birth
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16-June-1920
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Place of Birth
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Lac la Biche
(Canada, Division No. 12, Alberta, Lakeland County, Northern Alberta)
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Nationality
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Canada
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Profession
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Scientist, Chemist, Professor
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Raymond Urgel Lemieux, CC, AOE, FRS was a Canadian organic chemist, who pioneered a number of discoveries in the field of chemistry, his first and most famous being the synthesis of sucrose. His contributions include the discovery of the anomeric effect and the development of general methodologies for the synthesis of saccharides still employed in the area of carbohydrate chemistry.
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