Celebrating RACI and Academy of Science Awards 2020–2021

Curt Wentrup was educated at the University of Copenhagen (Cand. Scient. 1966 with K. A. Jensen; D.Sc. 1976) and the Australian National University (Ph.D. 1969 with W. D. Crow). After post-doctoral periods with Hans Dahn (Lausanne), W. M. Jones (Gainesville, FL) and Maitland Jones, Jr (Princeton, NJ), a junior position at the Université de Lausanne, and a professorship at the Universität Marburg, he returned to Australia in 1985 as Professor and Chair of Organic Chemistry and Head of the Organic Chemistry Section at the University of Queensland. Now an emeritus professor, he is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and a recipient of the Centenary Medal of the Australian Commonwealth, the David Craig Medal of the Australian Academy of Science, the Arthur J. Birch and Leighton Medals of the RACI, and a Dr. h.c. from the Université de Pau, France. He works in the area of historical chemistry as well as reactive intermediates, flash vacuum pyrolysis, photochemistry, and computational chemistry.