Carl David Gutsche (March 21, 1921 – August 28, 2018) was an American chemist. Gutsche was raised in

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. He studied at Oberlin College and later earned a doctorate in organic chemistry from the

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. University taught at

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from 1947 to 1989, when he was appointed Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry at

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. Upon retirement in 2002, Gutsche moved to

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and became a visiting scholar at the

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