John D. Roberts

John D. Roberts
John D. Roberts in 2010
Born	John Dombrowski Roberts (1918-06-08)June 8, 1918 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	October 29, 2016(2016-10-29) (aged 98) Pasadena, California, U.S.
Alma mater	UCLA
Awards	ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1954) Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry (1967) William H. Nichols Medal (1972) Tolman Award (1974) Willard Gibbs Award (1983) Priestley Medal (1987) Welch Award (1990) National Medal of Science (1990) Glenn T. Seaborg Medal (1991) Arthur C. Cope Award (1994) Nakanishi Prize (2001) Linus Pauling Legacy Award (2006) American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	Penn State UCLA Harvard MIT Caltech
Thesis	Studies of the nature of the butenyl Grignard reagent (1945)
Doctoral advisors	William Gould Young
Doctoral students	Joseph B. Lambert David Israel Schuster Dorothy Semenow Howard E. Simmons George M. Whitesides
Other notable students	Post-docs: William Bachovchin Marjorie Constance Caserio Donald J. Cram Sukh Dev Andrew Streitwieser Undergrad: Jesse L. Beauchamp MS student: Dinshaw Patel

John Dombrowski Roberts (June 8, 1918 – October 29, 2016) was an American chemist. He made contributions to the integration of physical chemistry, spectroscopy, and organic chemistry for the understanding of chemical reaction rates. Another characteristic of Roberts' work was the early use of NMR, focusing on the concept of spin coupling.^[1]