Charles John Pederson

Pederson, Charles John (1904–89), U.S. chemist. Pederson, Donald J. Cram, and Jean-Marie Lehn won the 1987 Nobel Prize for chemistry for their discovery of simple molecular structures that mimic the behavior of the complex molecules produced by living cells. Pederson was a researcher in the laboratories of du Pont, 1927–69.

See also: Chemistry.