Lewis Sarett
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company December 27, 1999, Monday HEADLINE: Dr. Lewis Hastings Sarett, 81, Leader in Cortisone Research BYLINE: By WOLFGANG SAXON Dr. Lewis Hastings Sarett, an organic chemist who received the National Medal of Science for his work with cortisone and other substances as the senior vice president for science and technology of Merck & Company, died on Nov. 29 at his home in Viola, Idaho. He was 81 and lived in Princeton and Akillman, N.J., before he retired in 1982. The cause was advanced colitis, his family said. Dr. Sarett was one of 15 scientists to receive the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest award for scientific achievement, from President Gerald R. Ford in 1975. He was cited for his contributions to the chemical synthesis of various chemotherapeutic agents, including cortisone, used in the treatment of inflammatory, allergic and neoplastic diseases. In 1980 Dr. Sarett was elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, created by the National Council of Patent Law Associations and the Patent and Trademark Office in 1973. Among his other honors were the Wallace H. Carothers Award of the American Chemical Society (1986), the James Madison Medal of Princeton University (1983). He was born in Champaign, Ill., and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Northwestern University in 1939. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton in 1942, and then joined Merck in Rahway, N.J. |
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