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Donald J. Cram

Donald J. Cram

American chemist (1919–2001)
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🗓️ 22 April 1919

Donald James Cram was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." They were the founders of the field of host–guest chemistry.

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