Caltech Chemist Wins Research Award

A chemist at Caltech in Pasadena on Tuesday was named one of two nationwide recipients of the 1990 Welch Award in Chemistry, given for research that has a positive influence on mankind.

The award will be presented Oct. 22 to John D. Roberts of Caltech and William von Eggers Doering of Harvard University. Welch Foundation President Jack S. Josey said the pair have been major intellectual forces in the creation of modern physical organic chemistry for more than 40 years.

Roberts, 71, is institute professor emeritus of chemistry at Caltech. He is best known for pioneering the use of nuclear magnetic resonance techniques to analyze the structure of chemical compounds.