What is Ronald Breslow?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Ronald Breslow |image = Ronald Breslow HD2006 Othmer Gold Medal portrait.JPG |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date|1931|3|14}} |birth_place = [[Rahway, New Jersey]], [[United States|U.S.]] |residence = |nationality = |birth_name = Ronald Charles Drake Breslow |death_date = {{death date and age|2017|10|25|1931|3|14}} |death_place = [[New York City]], [[New York]], [[United States|U.S.]] |field = [[Chemistry]] |work_institution = [[Columbia University]] |alma_mater = [[Harvard University]] |doctoral_advisor = [[Robert Burns Woodward]] |doctoral_students = {{Plainlist| *[[Robert Grubbs]] * [[Doug La Follette]]}} |known_for = |prizes = {{no wrap|[[ACS Award in Pure Chemistry]] <small>(1966)</small><br>[[NAS Award in Chemical Sciences]] <small>(1989)</small><br>[[National Medal of Science]] <small>(1991)</small><br>[[Priestley Medal]] <small>(1999)</small><BR>[[Othmer Gold Medal]] <small>(2006)</small><br>[[Perkin Medal]] <small>(2010)</small><br>[[American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal|AIC Gold Medal]] <small>(2014)</small>}} |religion = |footnotes = }} '''Ronald Charles Drake Breslow''' (March 14, 1931 – October 25, 2017) was an American [[chemist]]. He was [[University Professor (Columbia)|University Professor]] at [[Columbia University]]. He had taught at Columbia since 1956 and was a former chair of the university's chemistry department. He was interested in the design and synthesis of new molecules with interesting properties, and the study of these properties. He was a member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]], the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], the [[European Academy of Sciences]], and the [[American Philosophical Society]]. Breslow died of [[pancreatic cancer]] in [[New York City]] on October 25, 2017 at the age of 86.<ref>[https://cen.acs.org/artic