David Israel Schuster is a chemist who is currently a professor emeritus at New York University.
During Schuster's time in the Roberts laboratory, the group began experimenting with some of the first applications of NMR spectroscopy to organic chemistry.
Schuster next joined Howard Zimmerman's group at the University of Wisconsin as a postdoctoral fellow, where he spent a year studying mechanistic organic photochemistry.
Schuster received tenure in 1968 and spent the 1968–69 academic year on sabbatical in London in the laboratory of George Porter.
[1] Among Schuster's influential advisees are structural biologist Dinshaw Patel[3] and synthetic organic chemist Phil Baran, who worked in the laboratory as an NYU undergraduate.