Robert Burns Woodward, who received the 1965 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for several total syntheses (e.g., his 1954 synthesis of strychnine), is regarded as the father of modern organic synthesis.
Robert Burns Vudvard, kome je dodeljena Nobelova nagrada za hemiju 1965. za nekoliko totalnih sinteza (e.g., njegova sinteza strihnina iz 1954), se smatra osnivačem polja moderne organske sinteze.