Woodward, R.B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979

Four bound notebooks created by American organic chemist and science administrator Eugene G. Kovach. The notebooks were created by Kovach as a graduate student at Harvard University’s Chemistry Department, in which he recorded lectures given by American organic chemist and Nobel Prize winner Robert Burns Woodward.

Reports, reprints, and glass lantern slides regarding the biosynthesis of penicillin by researchers at Eli Lilly & Company. The materials in this collection were collected and maintained by Joseph W. Corse, an American chemist and employee of Eli Lilly.