Arpad Furka

VALERY ANTONENKO GEORGE BARANY TONY BAXTER GARY BOLTON MARK BRADLEY BARRY BUNIN DAN COOK ROLAND DOLLE JON ELLMAN NAT FINNEY KOICHI FUKASE ARPAD FURKA SAM GERRITZ DENNIS HEYER STEVE HUTCHINS JOHN KIELY MARK KURTH MICHAEL LAWRENCE BRUCE MARYANOFF AUBREY MENDONCA ADNAN MJALLI K. C. NICOLAOU JOHN NUSS DINESH PATEL JOHN PORCO ROBERT RAMAGE WOLFGANG RAPP AL ROBICHAUD JOE SALVINO JAY SIEGEL MICHAEL SOFIA RICHARD SOLL STEVE WILSON CHARLIE XIAO... 

By Arpad Furka, James W. Christensen, and Eric Healy... 

Arpad Furka (5), Eolvos Lorand University, Department of Organic Chemistry, P.O. Box 32, Budapest 112, H-1518, Hungary... 

As so often happens in science, there is some debate about the primacy of the discovery of combinatorial chemistry. After all, it is almost certain that Carl Wilhelm Scheele was the first to discover oxygen (ca. 1771-72) but the discovery was made independently in 1774 by Joseph Priestley who published first. Similarly, Arpad Furka (1931- ), at the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, first described the concept that would later be called combinatorial chemistry in a document notarized in May 1982. A Ph.D. thesis by his smdent on this topic was completed in 1987 and presented at conferences in Prague and Budapest in 1988 (a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the cold war). His work first appeared in a refereed journal in 1991. In 1984, H. Mario Geysen (1944— ) at Glaxo Wellcome in North Carolina published research that employed combinatorial chemistry. In that year, Richard A. Houghton (1946- ) started the nonprofit Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies and developed the tea bag method of combinatorial chemistry. 

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