Lloyd Noel Ferguson

[2][3][4][5] As a child in Oakland, California, Ferguson had a backyard laboratory in which he developed a moth repellent, a silverware cleanser, and a lemonade powder.[9] During his time at Berkeley, Ferguson worked with Melvin Calvin on the synthesis of Schiff base ligands used to form transition metal complexes that mimic the oxygen-carrying ability of biological proteins.While affiliated with Howard University, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1953 and an NSF grant in 1960 that allowed him to travel to the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark, and to ETH Zurich in Switzerland.[5] Beginning with Ferguson's 1958 paper in the Journal of Chemical Education,[12] he developed a large body of knowledge around taste as it relates to the structure of organic compounds.[13] In the arena of chemosensing, Ferguson also published on carcinogens and chemotherapy, helping to summarize many of the mechanisms for chemical carcinogenesis and methods for determining structure-function relationships in anticancer agents.
Oakland, CaliforniaUnited StateschemistOakland Technical High SchoolUniversity of California, BerkeleyMelvin CalvinNorth Carolina Agricultural and Technical CollegeHoward UniversityGuggenheim FellowshipCarlsberg LaboratoryCopenhagenDenmarkETH ZurichSwitzerlandCalifornia State University, Los AngelesFood and Drug Administrationorganic chemistrychemoreceptorsJournal of Chemical Educationsweetnesscarcinogenschemotherapycarcinogenesisanticancer agentsNational Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical EngineersAmerican Chemical SocietyCalifornia State University systemLos Angeles TimesBibcodeWayback Machine