Donald J. Cram

(1919-2001) lived in Lincoln. Chemist, co-recipient of 1987 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his part in “elucidating mechanisms of molecular recognition, which are fundamental to enzymic catalysis, regulation, and transport” and recipient of 1993 National Medal of Science. Consult Lincoln Star, October 15, 1987, pp. 1, 3 and Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists (Gale, 1995) 421-423 and obituaries in New York Times, June 20, 2001, p. C-19 and Newsmakers 2002 Cumulation (Gale, 2003) 529-530 and Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Vol 6 (2004) 109-111 and American National Biography, Sup 2 (2005) 114-115.

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