Sorbonne Awards Degree to Fieser

Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emory Professor of Organic Chemistry, and lecturer in Chemistry 20, sails for France tomorrow, where he will receive an honorary degree from the University of Paris on Nov. 14. He plans to return Nov. 22.

While in France, Fieser will lecture before the French Chemical Society on "The Role of Cholesterol in Health and Disease."

He will be accompanied by his wife, Mary Peters Fieser, a research chemist and co-author of Fieser's books.

The co-author of 275 research papers, Fieser made discoveries in the chemistry of certain types of cancer. He synthesized vitamin K-1 and contributed a link in one of the methods of synthesizing cortisone.

This is the second honorary degree that Fieser has won. The first was given by Williams, his undergraduate school.