Charles Thomas Beer
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Organic chemist
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Charles Thomas Beer's Degrees
- PhD Chemistry University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Chemistry University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Charles Thomas Beer Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Thomas Beer was a Canadian organic chemist who helped in the discovery of vinblastine. Born in Leigh, Dorset, England, he received a D.Phil. in chemistry from Oxford in 1948. He came to North America in the early 1950s to the department of medical research at the University of Western Ontario to work with Robert L. Noble. Together they isolated the anti-cancer drug vinblastine from the leaves of the Madagascar periwinkle plant at the University of Western Ontario in 1958. The discovery of vinblastine is generally considered a milestone in the development of chemotherapy.
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