Dale Boger was born on August 22, 1953, in
Hutchinson, Kansas. He studied chemistry at the
University of Kansas (B.S., 1975), and received his
Ph.D. from
Harvard University in 1980 under Professor
E. J. Corey. Following graduate school, he joined the faculty at the
University of Kansas where he became assistant/associate professor of medicinal chemistry (1979–1985).
In 1985, he started at
Purdue University, where he was professor of chemistry (1985–1991). He is Richard and Alice Cramer Professor of Chemistry and member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology[2] at
The Scripps Research Institute.
Boger is active in the field of
organic chemistry with research interests including natural product synthesis, synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry, and
combinatorial chemistry. He is also the author of a popular book on synthetic organic chemistry: Modern Organic Synthesis Lecture Notes (TSRI Press, 1999).
Awards
Dale Boger has received numerous awards and honors including: