The reaction is named after its inventor : Gilbert Stork.
He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Gilbert Stork at Columbia University.
He conducted graduate work at Harvard University, receiving his doctorate in 1950 with Gilbert Stork as his advisor.
The inaugural Gilbert Stork Lecture was held in his honor in 2014 at his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This process is first described by Gilbert Stork who is best known for his contributions to the study of selective enolate formation methods in organic synthesis.
Gilbert Stork named lecture series are also held at other institutions, including Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, as a result of his endowments.
Israeli President Ezer Weizman will present the dlrs 100, 000 prize to professors Samuel J . Danishefsky and Gilbert Stork, both of Englewood, N . J ., in a March ceremony.
Gilbert Stork of New York City's Columbia University shared the chemistry prize with Samuel J . Danishefsky of the Memorial Sloan-Ketting Cancer Center for their work studying the synthesis of complex molecules.
A more recent example is E . J . Corey's carbenium-mediated cyclization of an engineered linear polyene to provide a tetracyclic steroid ring system, which built upon studies of cationic cyclizations of linear polyenes by the Albert Eschenmoser and Gilbert Stork, and the extensive studies of the enzyme, or a ribozyme ) can be said to be accomplishing a biomimetic synthesis, where design and characterization of such catalytic systems has been termed " biomimetic chemistry ".