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Dr. Raymond Urgel Lemieux ( June 16 , 1920 – July 22 , 2000 ) was a Canadian Biochemist , who pioneered a number of discoveries in the field of Chemistry , his first and most famous being the Synthesis of Sucrose . BIOGRAPHY ''Dr. Raymond U. Lemieux'' was born on June 16, 1920 in Lac La Biche , Alberta, Canada. His family moved to Edmonton, Alberta in 1926 . He studied chemistry at the University Of Alberta and received a BSc with Honours in Chemistry in 1943 . He went on to study at McGill University , where he received his PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1946 . He won a post-doctoral Scholarship at Ohio State University , where Bristol Laboratories Inc. sponsored his research on the structure of Streptomycin . He met his future wife, a doctoral student, at Ohio State and they were married in 1948 . In following years, he returned to Canada where he spent two years as an Assistant Professor at the University Of Saskatchewan . Next he served as Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council 's Prairie Regional Laboratory in Saskatoon . In 1953 he and a fellow researcher, George Huber, were the first scientists to successfully synthesize sucrose. In 1954 , he accepted the position of Dean in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University Of Ottawa , where he established their Department of Chemistry. In 1961 he returned to the University of Alberta as a professor in the Chemistry Department and to serve as the Chairman of the Organic Chemistry Division. He developed a method to make synthetic versions of Oligosaccharides , which led to improved treatments for Leukemia and Hemophilia and the development of new Antibiotics , Blood Reagents , and Organ Anti-rejection Drugs . While at the University of Alberta, he established a number of biochemical companies, including R&L Molecular Research Ltd. in 1962 , Raylo Chemicals Ltd.in 1966 (which purchased R&L) and Chembiomed in 1977 (which has since been taken over by Synsorb Biotech of Calgary, Alberta . Dr. Raymond Lemieux died of Cancer on July 22, 2000 . In 1999, the University of Alberta Faculty of Science and Strathcona County established the Strathcona Country/R.U. Lemieux Chair in Carbohydrate Chemistry. In 2001 , the University of Alberta renamed the building(s) housing the Department of Chemistry the Gunning/Lemieux Chemistry Centre. AWARDS Dr. R.U. Lemieux received numerous awards and honours for his work in chemistry, many of them posthumous:
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