Pederson, Charles J.

Pederson, Charles J.

(1904–89) chemist; born in Fusan, Korea. His father was Norwegian, his mother Japanese. He came to the United States in 1927 and became a research chemist at DuPont (1927–69). He developed the compounds called crown ethers in the 1960s, initiating a field known as host-guest chemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1987).