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Alfred Bader obtained his B.Sc. in 1945 from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and moved then to Harvard, where he worked under Louis Fieser. He gained his PhD in 1950, and joined the Pittsburgh Plate Glass company as a research chemist.About the same time, problems with the supply of organic research chemicals led Bader to start up the Aldrich Chemical Company, where he served from 1955 to 1991 as President and CEO of Aldrich and Sigma-Aldrich Chemical Companies. Throughout his scientific and business career, Bader gained many honors, among them 9 honorary doctorates. In 1998, Dr Bader received the American Chemical Society Award: "One of the Top 75 Distinguished Contributors to the Chemical Enterprise in the Last 75 Years". | 