<sod>|Ethnicity = Lebanese}}'''Elias James "E.J." Corey''' (born July 12, 1928) is an American [[organic chemistry|organic chemist]]. In 1990, he won the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] "for his development of the theory and methodology of [[organic synthesis]]",<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1990 | publisher = Nobelprize.org | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1990/index.html|accessdate=2015-07-25}}</ref> specifically [[retrosynthetic analysis]].<ref>E. J. Corey, X-M. Cheng, ''The Logic of Chemical Synthesis'', Wiley, New York, 1995, ISBN 0-471-11594-0.</ref><ref name=nobel-lecture>{{cite journal | last1 = Corey | first1 = E.J. | year = 1991 | title = The Logic of Chemical Synthesis: Multistep Synthesis of Complex Carbogenic Molecules (Nobel Lecture) | url = | journal = [[Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl.]] | volume = 30 | issue = 5| pages = 455–465 | doi = 10.1002/anie.199104553 }}</ref>  Regarded by many as one of the greatest living chemists, he has developed numerous synthetic reagents, methodologies and total syntheses and has advanced the science of [[organic synthesis]] considerably.<eod>
<sod>|Ethnicity = Lebanese}}'''Elias James "E.J." Corey''' (born July 12, 1928) is an American [[organic chemistry|organic chemist]]. In 1990, he won the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] "for his development of the theory and methodology of [[organic synthesis]]",<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1990 | publisher = Nobelprize.org | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1990/index.html|accessdate=2015-07-25}}</ref> specifically [[retrosynthetic analysis]].<ref>E. J. Corey, X-M. Cheng, ''The Logic of Chemical Synthesis'', Wiley, New York, 1995, ISBN 0-471-11594-0.</ref><ref name=nobel-lecture>{{cite journal | last1 = Corey | first1 = E.J. | year = 1991 | title = The Logic of Chemical Synthesis: Multistep Synthesis of Complex Carbogenic Molecules (Nobel Lecture) | url = | journal = [[Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl.]] | volume = 30 | issue = 5| pages = 455–465 | doi = 10.1002/anie.199104553 }}</ref>  Regarded by many as one of the greatest living chemists, he has developed numerous synthetic [[reagents]], methodologies and total syntheses and has advanced the science of [[organic synthesis]] considerably.<eod>