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Princeton Celebrates Professor Emeritus Edward C. Taylor

April 5, 2016

Faculty, alumni, and members of the University community gathered on April 5, 2016, to honor Edward C. “Ted” Taylor H10, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor in Organic Chemistry Emeritus, with a chemistry symposium, reception, and dinner.

Professor Taylor recently strengthened teaching and research at Princeton by establishing the Edward and Virginia Taylor Professorship in Bioorganic Chemistry and the Edward C. Taylor Fellowships, which provide funding for third-year graduate students, a rarity in higher education.

Celebration for Professor Emeritus Edward C. Taylor
April 5, 2016

Celebration of Professor Edward C. Taylor

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From Butterflies to Tomorrow’s Chemists: Professor Emeritus Ted Taylor Helps Discovery Take Flight

In his four decades on the Princeton faculty, Ted Taylor earned the admiration of his students and colleagues for his cheerful nature and commitment to rigorous research. Even in retirement, he has continued to support and shape new generations of scientists by establishing the Edward and Virginia Taylor Professorship in Bioorganic Chemistry and the Edward C. Taylor Fellowships for third-year graduate students in chemistry.

Princeton chemist Edward C. Taylor, inventor of anti-cancer drug, dies at 94

Edward C. Taylor, a Princeton University chemistry professor whose research into butterfly wing pigments led to the development of a cancer-fighting drug used worldwide, died Nov. 22 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was 94.

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