Duilio Arigoni [SEP] educated at
Duilio Arigoni
Duilio Arigoni (born December 6, 1928) is a Swiss chemist and Emeritus Professor at ETH Zurich. He has worked on the biosynthetic pathways of many organic natural substances.
Birth and education.
Born in Lugano, Switzerland, Arigoni completed his undergraduate studies in Chemistry from ETH Zürich in 1951. He completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry from ETH Zurich in 1955. His doctoral thesis was “Über konfigurative Beziehungen Steroid- und Terpenverbindungen”.
Academic career.
After completing his Ph.D., he became professor at
Education and career.
Born in New York City, Cane graduated "magna cum laude" from Harvard College in 1966. He completed his Ph.D. study in organic synthesis in 1971 under the guidance of Prof. E. J. Corey at Harvard University. He pursued his studies as a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Duilio Arigoni at the Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zürich, Switzerland. In 1973, he joined the faculty of Brown University, where he became a full Professor of Chemistry in