Donald James Cram

1919 - 2001  (82 years)

• Name	Donald James Cram
  Birth	22 Apr 1919	Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, United States
  	see notes for occupation
  Gender	Male
  _FGLINK	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97728194
  _FGRAVE	97728194
  _TAG	Ramsay Twp Settlers (1820-1821)
  Death	17 Jun 2001	Palm Desert, Riverside County, California, United States
  	Cause: Cancer
  	http://www.chem.ucla.edu/news/djc.html [accessed 170429] +++ see notes on file for brother, Donald J. Cram +++ Donald J. CRAM (1919 to 2001) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1987. He was born in Vermont, but was the son of William Moffatt CRAM (1869 to 1923) born in Carleton Place, Ontario; the grandson of Isaac CRAM (1844 to 1923) also born in Lanark, and the great-grandson of James CRAM. Cram was born and raised in Chester, Vermont, to a Scottish immigrant father, and a German immigrant mother who once lived in Carleton Place. His father, William Cram died before Cram turned four, leaving him the only male in a family of five. He grew up on Aid to Dependent Children, and learned to work at an early age, doing jobs such as picking fruit, tossing newspapers, and painting houses, while bartering for piano lessons. By the time he turned eighteen, he had worked at least eighteen different jobs Cram once admitted that his career wasn't without sacrifice. His first wife was Rollins classmate, Jean Turner, who also graduated in 1941, and went on to receive a master's degree in social work from Columbia University. His second wife, Jane, is a former chemistry professor at Mt. Holyoke College. Cram chose not to have any children, "because I would either be a bad father or a bad scientist." In 2001, Cram died of cancer at the age of 82
  Person ID	I5810	The Family History of Robert Duncan a Lanark Society Settler
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2020

  
  

  Father	William Moffatt Cram,   b. 19 Nov 1869, Beckwith Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. 30 Mar 1923, Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, United States (Age 53 years)
  Mother	Joanna Shelley,   b. 18 Jun 1888, Breslau, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada d. 1 Dec 1982, Volusia County, Florida, United States (Age 94 years)
  Family ID	F2014	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Jean Turner   d. Aft 2001
  Marriage	http://www.chem.ucla.edu/news/djc.html [accessed 170429] +++ see notes on file for brother, Donald J. Cram +++
  Family ID	F2017	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Apr 2017

  
  

  Family 2	Jane Lewis Maxwell
  Family ID	F2711	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2017

  
  

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  Death - Cause: Cancer - 17 Jun 2001 - Palm Desert, Riverside County, California, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  Donald James Cram 1919-2001

  
  

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  Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald J. Cram and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." He is the director of the Supramolecular Chemistry Laboratory at the Universit? Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg and a professor at Coll?ge de France in Paris. Lecture presented on May 19, 2008 at Technion Nobel Laureate Symposium.