[kawr-ee, kohr-ee] 
| 1. | Elias James, born 1928, U.S. chemist and educator: Nobel prize 1990. |
| 2. | a male given name. |
| Cor·ey (kôr'ē) American chemist. He won a 1990 Nobel Prize for developing techniques of creating synthetic compounds. |
Elias James Corey
American chemist, director of a research group that developed syntheses of scores of complicated organic molecules and winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his original contributions to the theory and methods of organic synthesis
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