American chemist of *anese descent (born 1920)

George Iwao Fujimoto (born July 1, 1920) is an American chemist of *anese descent. During his studies at Harvard his family was imprisoned in an American internment camp Minidoka in Idaho. He discovered the Fujimoto-Belleau reaction, which is named after him and Bernard Belleau. He was widowed at the age of 99 when his wife Mary died in December 2019.

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• Harvard Crimsom George Fujimoto