E. J. Corey & Barbara Czako 
Molecules and Medicine [PDF ebook] 

E. J. Corey has been a Professor at Harvard University since
1959. He was educated at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1945-1950) and served as a faculty member at the University of
Illinois from1951 to 1959. He is the 1990 Nobel Laureate in
Chemistry, and the recipient of over seventy international awards
and honorary degrees, including the U.S. National Medal of Science,
the Japan Prize in Science, and the Priestley Medal of the American
Chemical Society. He is amember of the U.S. National Academy of
Sciences and the U.S. National Institute of Medicine. Professor
Corey is the author of more than 1, 000 publications and is one of
the most cited authors in science.
Barbara Czakó completed undergraduate studies at the
University of Debrecen, Hungary, where she worked with Dr.
Sándor Berényi. She obtained a Master of Science degree
at the University of Missouri-Columbia with Professor Shon R.
Pulley. Dr. Czakó received her Ph.D. degree (2006) in
synthetic organic chemistry under the guidance of Professor Gary A.
Molander at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently she is a
postdoctoral fellow with Professor E.J. Corey at Harvard
University. In 2005 she published with László Kürti
the textbook Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in
Organic Synthesis.
László Kürti was born and raised in
Hungary. He received his diploma from the University of Debrecen,
Hungary, where he conducted research in the laboratory of Professor
Sándor Antus. Subsequently he received his Master of Science
degree at the University of Missouri-Columbia working with
Professor Michael Harmata, and his Ph.D. degree (2006) in synthetic
organic chemistry under the supervision of Professor Amos B. Smith
III (the University of Pennsylvania). Currently he is a Damon
Runyon Cancer Fellow in the group of Professor E.J. Corey at
Harvard University. In 2005 he published with Barbara Czakó
the textbook Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in
Organic Synthesis.