title: Woodward's Words: Elegant and Commanding.
abstract: Robert Burns Woodward's publications exhibit a beauty and majesty infrequently seen in the scientific literature. Excerpts from Woodward's publications are presented along with a discussion of his literary personality and the effect of his writings on his contemporaries and on the style of the chemical literature that followed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, 23173, USA. jseeman@richmond.edu.
authors.forename: Jeffrey I
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-0395-2536
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Seeman
keywords: Woodward, Robert Burns; history of chemistry; language; synthesis; vocabulary