Dr Campbell is a synthetic organic chemist who received a CBE for services to science.

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"Bristol fulfilled every contractual provision we had, to the letter, " says a still-bitter Dean Stull, Hauser's organic chemist boss.

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Eli Lilly announced Tuesday that it has promoted JohnLechleiterJohn Lechleiter, who joined the company as an organic chemist in 1979, to president and chief operating officer.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Eli Lilly announced Tuesday that it has promoted John Lechleiter , who joined the company as an organic chemist in 1979, to president and chief operating officer.

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In the past year, for example, Dr Seddon and Tom Welton, a chemist at Imperial College London, have shown that one of the most important and difficult processes in industrial organic chemistry, the Diels-Alder reaction (which links carbon atoms together and thus allows big molecules to be assembled) can work better in ionic than in conventional solvents.

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