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Robert Elderfield
Born	(1904-05-30)May 30, 1904 Niagara Falls, New York, US
Died	December 10, 1979(1979-12-10) (aged 75) Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Michigan
Scientific career
Fields	Chemist
Institutions	Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, Columbia University, University of Michigan
Thesis	Alkyl guanidines and nitroguanidines (1930)
Doctoral advisor	Tenney Lombard Davis
Doctoral students	William Standish Knowles Josef Fried Elkan Blout
Other notable students	Isaac Asimov (post-doctoral)

Robert Cooley Elderfield (May 30, 1904 – December 10, 1979) was an American chemist. He was born in Niagara Falls, New York, United States.

Elderfield studied at the Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, later at the University of Michigan receiving his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1930. He worked at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research from 1930 until 1936; in 1936, Elderfield changed to Columbia University. He was moved to University of Michigan in 1952.

Elderfield started his research with cardiac glycosides and cardiac aglycones shifting to the synthesis of primaquine and other antimalarials. At the end of his career, Elderfield did some research in new anticancer agents.

External links

• Robert Elderfield's Biographical Memoir from the National Academy of Sciences