Dale L. Boger

Dale Lester Boger
Born	(1953-08-22)August 22, 1953 Hutchinson, Kansas
Alma mater	University of Kansas,Harvard University
Scientific career
Institutions	The Scripps Research Institute
Doctoral advisor	E. J. Corey

Dale Lester Bogeris an American medicinal and organicchemistand former chair of the Department of ChemistryatThe Scripps Research InstituteinLa Jolla,CA.

Dale Boger was born on August 22, 1953, inHutchinson, Kansas.He studied chemistry at theUniversity of Kansas(B.S., 1975), and received hisPh.D.fromHarvard Universityin 1980 under ProfessorE. J. Corey.Following graduate school, he joined the faculty at theUniversity of Kansaswhere he became assistant/associate professor of medicinal chemistry (1979–1985).

In 1985, he started atPurdue University,where he was professor of chemistry (1985–1991). He is Richard and Alice Cramer Professor of Chemistry and member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical BiologyatThe Scripps Research Institute.

Boger is active in the field oforganic chemistrywith research interests including natural product synthesis, synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry, andcombinatorial chemistry.He is also the author of a popular book on synthetic organic chemistry: Modern Organic Synthesis Lecture Notes (TSRI Press, 1999).

Awards

Dale Boger has received numerous awards and honors including:

• NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, 1975–78
• Searle Scholar Award,1981–84
• NIH Research Career Development Award, 1983–88
• Alfred P. SloanFellow, 1985–89
• ACSArthur C. CopeScholar Award, 1988
• American CyanamidAcademic Award, 1988
• Japan Promotion of Science Fellow, 1993
• ISHC Katritzky Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry, 1997
• Honorary Member, The Lund Chemical Society (Sweden), 1998
• ACS Aldrich Award for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, 1999
• A. R. Day Award, POCC 1999
• Honorary Ph.D. Degree: Laurea Honors Causa, Univ. of Ferrara, 2000
• Smissman Lecturer, Univ. of Kansas, 2000
• Yamanouchi USA Faculty Award, 2000
• Myron L. Bender& Muriel S. Bender Distinguished Summer Lectureship,Northwestern University,2001
• Paul JanssenPrize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, 2002
• Ross Lecturer, Dartmouth College, 2002
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003
• Adrien Albert Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003
• ISI Highly Cited (top 100 chemists)
• Alder Lecturer, University of Köln, 2005
• Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006
• ACS Guenther Award in Natural Products, 2007[1]
• Editor-in-Chief,Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters,1990–present
• Executive Editorial Board Member, Tetrahedron Publications, 1990–present
• ACS Medicinal Chemistry Division
• Long Range Planning Committee, 1981–1983
• Awards Committee, 1984–1986
• Councilor, 1996–1999

Sources

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070926225751/http:// scripps.edu/chem/boger/db.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20060911020926/https:// chemistry.msu.edu/Lectureships/lectures.asp?series=DK&Year=1997
• Boger, Dale L. (1999).Modern Organic Synthesis.TSRI Press.

External links

• Boger group - scripps.edu