"My doctoral work was completed by the end of 1950 and, at the age of twenty-two, I joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an instructor in chemistry under the distinguished chemists Roger Adams and Carl S. Marvel."
Elias James Corey is an American organic chemist known for foundational work in synthetic chemistry. He won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing methods in organic synthesis planning. He has been a longtime professor at Harvard University.