有机合成宗师级人物ejcorey.docx

有机合成宗师级人物E.J. Cony的自传 Elias James Corey 科里?羌国哈佛大学教授，I大］发展有机逆合成分析理论，获1990 年诺贝尔化学奖。 Elias J. Corey - Autobiography (The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1990) My birth in July 1928 m Methuen, Massachusetts was followed just eighteen months later by the death of my father, Elias, a successful business man m that community 30 miles north of Boston? My mother, Fatina (nOe Hasham), changed my name from William to Elias shortly after my father* s passing? I do not remember my father, but all his friends and associates made it clear that he was a remarkably gifted and much admired person? I have always been guided by a desire to be a worthy son to the father I cannot remember and to the loving, courageous mother who raised me, my brother, and two sisters through the trials of the Depression and World War II? My grandparents on both sides, who emigrated from Lebanon to the United States, also knew how to cope with adversity, as Christians in a tragically torn country, under the grip of the Ottoman empire? In 1931, our family grew to include my mother* s sister, Naciby, and her husband, John Saba, who had no children of their o葩.We all lived together in a spacious house in Methuen, still a gathering place for family reunions? My uncle and aunt were like second parents to us? As a youngster I was rather independent, preferring such sports as football, baseball and hiking to work? However, when my aunt, who was much stricter than my mother, assigned a household chore, it had to be taken seriously? From her I learned to be efficient and to take pleasure in a job well done, no matter how mundane? We were a very close, happy and hardworking family with everything that we needed, despite the loss of my father and the hard economic times? Uncle John died in 1957, and too soon afterwards, in 1960, my aunt passed away? My mother died in 1970 at the age of seventy? They all lived to see each of the four children attain a measure of success? From the ages of five to twelve I attended the Saint