Raymond Lemieux's 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.
10 Facts About Raymond Lemieux
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Raymond Lemieux was a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society, and a recipient of the prestigious Albert Einstein World Award of Science and Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
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Dr Raymond U Lemieux was born in Lac La Biche, Alberta, Canada.
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Raymond Lemieux studied chemistry at the University of Alberta and received a BSc with Honours in Chemistry in 1943.
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Raymond Lemieux went on to study at McGill University, where he received his PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1946.
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Raymond Lemieux won a post-doctoral scholarship at Ohio State University, where Bristol Laboratories Inc sponsored his research on the structure of streptomycin.
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Raymond Lemieux met his future wife, a doctoral student, at Ohio State and they were married in 1948.
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Raymond Lemieux developed a method to make synthetic versions of oligosaccharides, which led to improved treatments for leukemia and hemophilia and the development of new antibiotics, blood reagents, and organ anti-rejection drugs.
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Raymond Lemieux received numerous awards and honours for his work in chemistry:.
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Raymond's daughter Janet Lemieux was Canadian champion soccer player and was inducted to the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame in 2021.