Albert Eschenmoser: Prizes are Good but Discoveries are Better Erli experiment

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Albert Eschenmoser: Prizes are Good but Discoveries are Better Erli experimentLives in ChemistryLebenswerke in der Chemie Albert Eschenmoser (19252023), the brilliant Swiss chemist quietly composed an autobiography describing his six professional decades just for the sake of its existence. Already as a PhD student at ETH Zurich, he discerned patterns in the biogenesis of terpenes. His passion for synthesis of very complex molecules culminated in the world famous competitive collaboration with R. B. Woodwards group resulting in